User:Joshmanzors/screenplays

Heres some quick screenplay ideas.

Plot
Flashbacks throughout the film show Trent's transformation into a vengeful black supremacist in South Central. Having already been influenced by his courtroom accountant father's latent racism, Trent is driven to action when his father is shot and killed while taking relaxing at home reading a copy of "Malcolm X on Afro-American History" by a white police officer. Eventually Trent becomes second-in-command of a black supremacist street gang, The Black Panthers, and entices young blacks to join. The gang commits acts of intimidation, such as damaging a store owned by a old Caucasian man and challenging white players to basketball games to win the court as turf. These incidents go unnoticed by the family until Trent has an argument with his mother's friend Murray who is white. Later that night while Trent is having sex with his girlfriend Monique, Daryll informs Trent that three white men are attempting to steal Trent's dad's truck. Trent runs outside and shoots at the two of the men with a pistol, killing the first one instantly. He shoots and wounds the second man, one of the white basketball players, and vows to "teach him a lesson" for trying to steal the truck his father gave him. He forces him to put his mouth on the curb, then brutally kills him with a curb-stomp. Daryll watches in horror as this unfolds. A large group of white police officers arrest Trent as he smiles at a shocked Daryll.

After being convicted of voluntary manslaughter, Trent is sentenced to three years at the California Institution for Men in Chino. There he joins the Nation of Islam prison gang. After about a year, he becomes disillusioned with the gang, especially over the group's friendly dealings with a white prison gang member. When he voices these opinions, he is ignored by the other black supremacists. Trent decides to no longer associate with them when he befriends a white prison inmate, Henry. His fellow black supremacist take notice before they savagely beat and rape him in the shower in retaliation for Trent's leaving the gang.

While still recovering from the attack, Derek is visited by Dr. Langley, whom he asks for help to be paroled. Langley informs him of Daryll's aspiration to become a black supremacist like Trent. Langley confides in Trent that he used to hate black people as a youth, and he realized that racism is pointless. Langley asserts that Trent has spent his life pursuing answers, and then asks: "Has anything you've done made your life better?" This proves a turning point for Derek, who further distances himself from the Black Panthers and changes his outlook on life. Henry emerges as Trent's only true friend in prison, and is part of the reason Trent stays alive as he uses what influence he has to stop the black prisoners from hurting Trent.

Three years later
The morning Trent is due to be released from prison, Daryll's history teacher Stevenson reports Daryll to the now principal Dr. Langley on account of Daryll history paper on The Communist Manifesto, a book about communism. Dr. Langley convinces Stevenson to give him another chance. He tells Daryll that he will no longer attend Stevenson's class, and every day Dr. Langley will teach Daryll history, a class they will call Black History Month X. For their first lesson Dr. Langley asks Daryll to write a new paper on the events leading up to Trent's incarceration. Daryll reluctantly agrees after Langley threatens expulsion. In the evening when Trent returns home, he finds that Daryll has become a afro-wearing black-supremacist communist and then tries and fails to convince him to leave the gang. Later that night at a black supremacist party which Trent and Daryll are both attending (despite the fact that Trent made Daryll promise he wouldn't go), Trent confronts and tells the leader, Shabazz K. Milton Berle, that he will no longer associate with him and the gang and tells him to "Stay away from him and Daryll" at which point Milton provokes and insults Trent who beats him up and knocks him unconscious before leaving his office. During an ensuing confrontation, Trent's overweight black supremacist friend Albert runs after Trent and aims a glock at him, which Trent wrestles from him, and points it at the angry crowd before running away from the party. Daryll angrily confronts Trent, who tells him about his experiences in prison of becoming aware of the effects of racism and being raped. The confession seems to prompt a change in Daryll.

The following morning Daryll finishes his paper, and Trent gets ready for a meeting with his parole officer. Trent walks Daryll to school before his meeting, and on their way they stop at a café where they are met by Dr. Langley and a police officer. They tell Trent that Milton and Albert were attacked the previous night and have been hospitalized. Trent claims no knowledge of the incidents, yet they ask him for help. Trent reluctantly agrees.

At school, after Daryll uses the urinal in the bathroom, he is confronted by a young white student with whom he had a confrontation the previous day. The student shoots and kills Daryll. When Trent arrives, he runs into the bathroom and tearfully cradles his dead brother in his arms. The film ends with Trent narrating part of his paper, in which he quotes Ronald Reagan's 1987 Speech: "Let us work to bring the Eastern and Western parts of the city closer together, so that all the inhabitants of all Berlin can enjoy the benefits that come with life in one of the great cities of the world."