Duration: Approximately 90 minutes, we feel that this an adequate time to be able to fit in all the revenge of 4 people (Alessandro Messina, Joe Messina, Luciano Moretti, Leonardo Moretti (As well as finding out about the fate's of William King and Walt Dixon)). This would be also ideal for if our film was to ever feature on TV, as it is 3 half an hour slots. We also feel that 90 minutes is enough time for the audience not to get bored, anything more than this could cause the audience to get bored of the film, and feel as it is dragging.
Audience: 15-30, targeted more at male compared to female yet could attract female attention, more targeted to middle aged males who have seen similar films like the Godfather or Reservoir Dogs
Synopsis: Our idea for the full film
Marco Ramone is raised in an orphanage after his mother was killed in a car accident at the age of 11. He knew nothing of his father, so decides to retrace his routes. After discovering a photo at the side of his mother and father's grave, he deduces that the woman in the photo is his mother, and Marilyn says that the man in the photo looks remarkably like him, Marco assumes that the man in the photo is his father. On the back of the photo is an inscription saying, Deepest Sympathies, Miele. Marco decides that this is the place to start. He visits his grandad, the father of his mother (Francesca Ramone) and he tells him that his father was involved in the mafia and had a fierce rivalry with a rival mafia, the Messina's. Marco decides that his next stop is to find out about the Messina mafia. His grandfather gives him the number of a man who was involved with the mafia, in the story we never learn his name. Marco meets him in a pub and he gives him details to Luciana Messina, the only member of the Messina mafia that he still knows of who is living. He tells him that she only lives a few blocks away from where he is living, after dropping her mafia links.
Marco goes to her apartment, and discovers that she was the one who left the photo at the gravestone, and she is nicknamed 'Miele', as it is what her father called her. She is honest with Marco and tells him that she played a part in the murder of his father. She tells him that she served him the fatal drink, that killed him at the poker match, and she breaks down in tears. Yet Marco takes sympathy in an old crying woman and decides to spare her life, if she helps him track down the one's who are still in the Messina mafia. She tells him of the people that were involved in the murder, being;
Alessandro Messina, the Don, who ordered the hit over unpaid money.
Joe Messina, the plan maker for the death of his father.
Luciano and Leonardo Moretti who were responsible for disposing of his father's body.
William King who was responsible for supplying the poison that killed his father.
Walt Dixon, who she is unsure about, yet understands that he had a part to play.
Marco decides to work from the bottom. The least significant within the death, all the way up to the Don, Alessandro. He sets out to find Walt Dixon, and discovers that he is no longer at his old address. The current owners tell Marco that he moved to Texas along with his young family. The current owners give him a picture that he left behind, showing the family, and ask him to take it, and if they find him, give it to him. After traveling to Texas, he discovers Walt Dixon in the street after recognizing him from his photo. Walt Dixon, being terrified tells him everything that happened on the night of his father's death and explains that he was just there playing poker, and had no idea that his Father was to die. He tells him that he fled from Chicago over fear of the mafia catching up with him. He was scared that his family might be used against him, so moved to Texas with his family. Walt tells Marco that he heard William King died of cancer 4 years ago. Yet, Marco feels that Walt may be lying to cover up for an old friend and to also to spare William's life. He spares Walt's life, after getting all the information that he needs, he travels back to Chicago to try and track down William King.
Walt Dixon provided Marco with the last known address that he knew of William King, before he moved to Texas. Deciding to visit the address, he discovers a middle aged woman, who seems to be alone. After asking if he can come in to ask some questions, he sees a picture of a man on the side, on a cabinet. He asks about the man, and the woman tells him that, it was her husband, William King, who died 4 years ago of cancer. After asking a few questions, he discovers that she knew nothing of his mafia links, and that he had kept it hidden from his wife.
Marco decides to revisit Luciana about the possibility of finding the two henchmen that were responsible for the disposing of the body. Luciano and Leonardo Moretti, Luciana is reluctant to give Marco information about her two cousins, yet Marco discovers that she turned away from the mafia links after Alessandro ordered a hit on her then fiancé, who she was set to marry. She tells him that the cousins are still involved in the mafia, as henchmen protecting her two brothers, Alessandro and Joe. She tells him that both Luciano and Leonardo were responsible for the disposing of his father's body. After a fairly disappointing journey so far, discovering that Walt was played no part in his father's death, and that William King had died 4 years earlier, Marco is keen to take revenge for the death of his father.
Luciana tells Marco her cousins always used to dispose of bodies in the Chicago river. They would put the body in a bag, and weight it down with bricks and throw it in the water (this was probably the way that Leo Ramone was killed). Since no exact address is known for the cousins, Marco decides to wait by the river for the cousins to appear, doing another job. It doesn't take long for the cousins to turn up, disposing of a body in the river, laughing as they do the job. Marco approaches both, to which both cousins become anxious and begin to run. As they run, Marco shoots Leonardo in the leg, leaving him sprawled on he floor. Luciano, out of love of his brother, stops running and hits the deck to avoid another shot from Marco. As Leonardo is bleeding from the leg, Luciano screams 'who are you?' to which Marco replies 'Revenge'. As Luciano and Leonardo share a tender moment, sharing there past together, Luciano tries to keep Leonardo warm as he slips away from life. At this moment, Marco walks away, Luciano thinks that Marco has spared him. As he is sprawled across his dead brother's body at the side of the river bank, he turns to tears and asks God for forgiveness. We see Marco emerge in a blur in the background, as Luciano turns around, Marco shoots him in the chest, and Luciano dies on top of his brother. We see a bit of irony, as the twins were born within a minute of each other, and they die within a minute of each other. Marco, loads the both bodies into separate bags and fills the bags with the rocks, and throws them both into the river. As he climbs back up the muddy riverbank, he sets his sight on Joe Messina.
The next scene, we see Alessandro Messina, anxiously pacing around a room. As we hear the door open, we see Joe Messina enter. Alessandro is anxious that Luciano and Leonardo have not returned. It is not like the cousins to be gone for a day, so Alessandro presumes that the worse has happened. Joe tells him that somebody saw a young man kill both of the twins and put the bodies into the body bag. Depicted in a flashback, we see a man who Alessandro and Joe know threw the mafia links was hiding under the bridge, and watched the entire thing. He followed Marco as he climbed back up the river bank and back to Luciana's apartment. He finds Joe Messina straight away to tell him of the news, that Luciana has broke the code of Omerta. Alessandro is furious. He sends Joe to go talk to Luciana, to see what is going on.
As Joe arrives, he passes Marco Ramone, on the stairs leading up to the apartment, yet both don't recognize each other. As Marco walks away, trying to track down Joe for revenge, he realizes that he has left his cigarette lighter at Luciana's apartment. Marco decides to go back to get it. He enters without knocking, after hearing conversation taking place. As he slides through the door, he takes his gun out and listens to the conversation. Luciana is crying to the man about how she was scared and the man she is helping was the son of Leo Ramone, who they killed many years ago. Eventually, Luciana says 'I'm so sorry, brother, i feel like I have betrayed the family'. To which Joe replies, 'You have', at this point, Marco strikes, he quickly moves around the corner. He sees that Joe is reaching for a knife within his shoe and quickly acts, and shoots Joe in the back of the head with pinpoint accuracy. Luciana breaks down in tears, after seeing her brother shot infront of her, but thanks Marco for saving her life. This time, cigarette lighter in hand, he sets out for Alessandro Messina.
As he's walking away, Luciana calls him back. Marco, clearly frustrated, goes back to which Luciana sits him down to tell him the full story of how he died. She tells him that his father, Leo, and Alessandro Messina used to be best friends right up until the marriage of his mother and father. She tells him that Alessandro payed for the wedding, which in return, Leo asked Alessandro to be his best man, which he gratefully accepted. Yet, things turned sour after Leo ran into debt and was unable to pay Alessandro the money he had borrowed for his wedding. Furious, Alessandro with the help of herself and Joe, decided to take revenge and kill him. The plan was to invite him to a poker game, and when the drinks were handed out, the poisoned one would be handed to Leo. She tells him that with great irony that Alessandro and Joe had joked that if Leo had got a royal flush in the game, that they would spare his life. On the night of the poker game, the plan went smoothly and his father fell into the trap of the poisoned drink. Leo though did have a royal flush in the game that he was killed. Marco decides that he has heard enough and goes out to get Alessandro.
Marco finds Alessandro at his mansion. As he sneaks through a window at the side of the mansion, as he just gets inside, he walks down a narrow hallway. A man, dressed in a suit, slips out from the toilet, and sees Marco walking down the hallway, rather carelessly. The man approaches him from behind, and starts to suffocate Marco, sending him unconscious. The scene goes dark. As it's still black, we hear Marco panicking, and eventually a bag is removed from his head and we see Alessandro Messina, with a smug look on his face, surrounded by 3 other men, dressed in suits.
An intense conversation takes place, in which we see that Alessandro Messina figures out that the man he has tied up, is the son of his former best friend, Leo Ramone. Marco begins to attempt to start untying the rope around his wrists .Not being a very pleasant man, Marco spits in the face of Alessandro. Not best pleased, Alessandro tells his men to take a cigarette break, as Alessandro starts beating him up around the head, we see that he produces a gun from his back pocket. As he puts the gun in to Marco's mouth, he tells him 'Like father, like son, both vermin". Just as the trigger is about to be pulled, we hear a blast and Alessandro's face is in utter shock, he looks down at his leg and falls to his knees after seeing he has being shot. Walt Dixon, stands behind him, shotgun in hand. Marco, quickly untangles his left hand and grabs Alessandro's gun, puts it in Alessandro's mouth and says the line 'You're the vermin... this is for... my father", and shoots him upwards in the mouth.
Walt, unties Marco and drags him out the window in the same room that Alessandro has been murdered. Walt drags Marco to a car, and places him in the backseat. As they drive away, Marco sits up and begins to talk to Walt, and asks him, what brought him to Chicago. Walt tells him that two assosciates had held his family hostage, and asked for information about him. Telling him everything, the assosciates left and shot his wife in the kneecap. Walt goes to a side cabinet, and as they're walking out of the door, he shoots both of them in the back. He tells him that he quickly untangled his family and took them to a safe place. He then, went to Chicago, to kill Alessandro Messina. He visited Luciana, who told him everything, about what had happened. He quickly came to the mansion, took out the 3 associates who were stood outside smoking and rushed around the mansion, desperately trying to find Alessandro. As he finishes his story, he throws back a large briefcase and tells Marco "A little compensation from our dead friend". Enscribed on the top of the briefcase, is the initials "A.M", as Marco opens the briefcase, we see a vast amount of tightly compact 100 dollar bills. The scene fades to black, as Marco smiles.
As we fade in, we see a wedding scene and Marco talking to his bride, Marilyn. She asks how he could afford to pay for such an extravagant wedding, and he tells her he payed the same way his father did. As, we pan around the room, we see previous characters such as Luciana Messina, Walt Dixon and Marco's grandfather. The film ends, with Marco and Marilyn, kissing...
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