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The Last Friends of Willie Coyote Kindle Edition

by Stephen Thor (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Three young people strike out in an old car on a soul-searching road trip out into the deep desert. Lifelong inseparable friends, each has their own reasons to venture into the lonely and desolate wastelands. Ella is a neurotic genius who has been forced to live a live she never wanted. She has no other place to go. Vaughn goes in an unlikely attempt to find a beloved uncle who disappeared in the desert decades before. Mike accompanies them in the hopes of shaking off a heartbreaking curse given to him by his own father.

They band together one last time and travel into a strange land which waits to reveal to them more wonders and darker secrets than any of them could have ever imagined. Almost out of gas, they motor along on a long-unused road. After passing through an abandoned town, their car becomes disabled after a freak encounter with a large Acme rocket.

Out of gas in a broken car and with no chance of help, they truely are on their own. Forced to go ahead on foot for help, they forge together into the desert at night, loosely guided by a cryptic map that Vaughn's uncle had given to him when he was only a child. They soon discover that their troubles have only begun.

They walk far into an unknown and forbidden land which defies logic and all sense of reality. After they sneak their way onto a beyond-classified military airbase commanded by a kind but tortured legendary officer, they witness a violent and yet entertaining event involving a speedy roadrunner and a determined coyote... carefully-hidden and protected characters that the trio (and everyone else) had previously thought only existed in cartoon-land a half-century before... only this is no cartoon. It is a stark reality.

Detained as honored guests on the crumbling base, our young band of heros make a few friends along the way and discover that besides the coyote and roadrunner a brilliant human-like race and a secretive ancient tribe of warriors also exist in the far regions of the vast expanses of the doomed base... all of whom would be destroyed if discovered by the outside world. Unfortunately, the word is already out about this collapsing house of cards and a disaster is in the making. A cruel man who is wrongfully bent on a terrible revenge unleashes his evil forces upon innocent peoples who are not prepared for such a costly war of destruction.

At the most crucial point in an epic battle between good and bad, Willie accomplishes his lifetime goal and then questions it. And he realizes something else along the way...maybe it was never really just hunger alone that drove him to pursue the Roadrunner.

The time comes for Willie to make things right for his friends and an innocent bird. He unleashes the most diabolical invention he has ever constructed upon the merciless invaders. He is then left with only one final mission... to save the one and only true friend that he ever had.

A desparate challenge for all to just survive spirals completely out of control and becomes a seemingly-hopeless quest for Willie, our three heroes and their friends. All must either fight, hide or run from an unescapable trap. Whether anybody makes it out alive is for you, dear readers, to discover for yourselves.

The Last Friends of Willie Coyote is a tale of laughter, tears, determination and hope. It is a story about the test of true friendships and rising above adversity in trying times. I hope you enjoy it.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A4RZ658
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stephen Thor (November 9, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 9, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3214 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 132 pages
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Stephen Thor

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24 years professional law enforcement writer

B.A. in Criminology

M.A. in Psychology

U.S. Navy and Army service, regular and reserves 1973-1992, E-4 to 0-3

Wile E. Coyote's and Chuck Jones's best fan!

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Meghan
5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredibly Amazing Take on a Much-loved Cartoon
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2012
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Who doesn't love the eternal chase that is the "Sisyphean" Willie Coyote/Roadrunner saga? When I was a kid, the Coyote devising all kinds of crude Rube Goldberg machines (complicated contraptions meant to trap the blithely unaware Roadrunner), all of which ends up exploding in his face, was a source of endless laughter. Only when I got older and, uhh, well, more "mature" did I realize that there's something more to the story--the sheer ingenuity and perseverance of Willie Coyote seems to have deeper layers of meaning. How can you not admire a character that stays unfazed with his perpetual failure to capture what he thinks is the best lunch/dinner ever?

The Coyote speaks to the Everyman and stirs up some sort of inspiration--but served as a cartoon, much of such meaning simply goes over our heads. I've always felt that the Coyote/roadrunner thing needs some sort of a "mish mash" to reach out to audiences of all ages and persuasions.

Now, thank the cartoon stars, Stephen Thor has written something that redeems us all: `The Last Friends of Willie Coyote: The Movie."

Meet Mike, Vaughn and Ella--three friends looking for some sort of personal redemption. And they find it in the unlikeliest of places: the desert. What was supposedly a road trip ends up in a strange place--they were like Dorothy in the `Wizard of Oz', whisked away to a mind-boggling place where the boundaries between reality and fantasy goes missing.

Yes, this ebook is the screenplay to what I hope will be optioned as an actual Hollywood movie in the future. It's not a novel, so those who are expecting the usual long prose should be properly forewarned. But that doesn't mean this is any less gripping--having grown up watching movies, I believe that the screenplay format actually makes the story more lively and engaging--you read the scenes and picture them in your head, you see things as they happen, and the effect can be visceral--I actually had some sort of a life-changing moment reading that part when Willie Coyote finally gets what he has always wanted, then realizing that the truth is not as simple as capturing the Roadrunner. I felt like Anton Ego (`Ratatouille') must have felt upon tasting his mother's dish--it transported me back to those childhood afternoons watching the eternal Coyote/Roadrunner chase, loving the cartoon but never realizing why. That's why Stephen Thor's take on the tale is immensely satisfying. It just felt right.

Yes, `The Last Friends of Willie Coyote' is an awesome tale, and I want it so badly to become a full-length animated film.

Stephen Thor's work deserves nothing but five stars and two thumbs up!
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Stefanie B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Script! Would love to see it as a movie!
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012
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I have never before read a movie script, so this was a different experience for me. I really enjoyed it! I liked that the author gave descriptions of scenery which made it feel as though the movie was playing out in my head. I remember watching the cartoon of Willie Coyote as a child, so seeing it in this aspect was pretty cool. It is cool watching Ella, Mike & Vaughn go through their adventures as they somehow end up on a military base where this secret colony of coyote like people live. It definitely involves some imagination to be able to see it as somewhat realistic. I really enjoyed how there was different points of views throughout the story, the 3 main characters, the pilots, the coyote people's, Willie Coyote's and the military personnel. It really made for a great script.

I would definitely recommend this script if you liked the cartoon growing up, as another reviewer said, this almost gives closure and a background of Willie Coyote (or at least what the author feels is the background).

Definitely recommend!! And why not, for the price, you can't beat it!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars What a Fun Story!
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2013
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Like many others, Willie Coyote and Roadrunner were staples of my childhood. There was just something about the elusive chase that Willie could never hope to win that I loved. I haven't decided if it taught me never to give up or if I was just rooting for Roadrunner, but either way I spent many an hour captivated by the images on my TV screen. I loved seeing what shenanigans Willie would come up with and even more so his inevitable downfall.

Really, what's not to love about Willie and Roadrunner?

I hadn't given much thought to how Willie and Roadrunner came about, so it was great to see someone's on their origins. I thought the explanation was interesting and plausible within the context of the storyline. The guardians were a nice touch, as well, although I would have liked to have seen more explanation as to why the young were sent to the moon - or rather, why the moon was chosen as their destination and not somewhere else on earth. I may have missed the reason, though, and will look for it on a second read-through.

The journey storyline with the three main characters was well thought out, and I liked that they discovered what they had set out to find in the end. I could wholly relate to Ella in the sense that she's adventurous, sarcastic, and is the one most likely to push the red button just to see what happens. The interaction between all three (Ella, Mike, and Vaughn) was a lot of fun to read!

I loved, loved, loved that a villain who could collectively be fought by the original warring parties was brought into the mix. And that Stephen Thor stayed true to the Willie/Roadrunner storyline in that the villain could never win paralleled nicely. I would have liked to have seen more interaction between Willie and the Villain, but given the confines of a script I can understand why that was as minimal as it was.

The storyline, overall, I thought was inventive and Thor did a great job revisiting Willie's antics and Roadrunner's last minute escapes. I could certainly see this as a viable alternative to some of the film remakes we've been subjected to over the past couple of years.
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Elizabeth
2.0 out of 5 stars Ahhhh,Whaat?!
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013
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Ummm, yeah. It started out okay, being a "screenplay" it was a little harder to read and follow, but I figured I'd give it a try. I'm still not sure if that was a smart decision. The "book" was hard to follow at times, but the overall idea and story was good. I finished the entire thing but only because I was really bored. This book/"screenplay" was no bueno.
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Francis
3.0 out of 5 stars Darker secrets
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2021
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The crumbling base, a cruel man mistakenly carried out terrible revenge, he released his evil power to innocent people
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