Henry Ford was a Jerk
FADE IN :
INT . DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART – RIVERA COURT – MORNING
The museum is empty save three figures: a well dressed blue haired DOCENT and a young man, HOWARD , docent in training are speaking near the composite image of Henry Ford / Thomas Edison. An OLD MAN shuffles slowly towards them.
The OLD MAN examines the fresco with a wry smile.
OLD MAN
That guy was a bastard.
DOCENT
Oh? Did you know him?
OLD MAN
My father was one of Mr Ford’s first one hundred employees. That man was a bastard.
(beat)
Mr. Ford I mean, of course.
(HOWARD looks on in amusement)
DOCENT
There are certainly a lot of stories to that respect.
OLD MAN
When he finally kicked off, they don’t tell this story in your movies or what not, but his family had to post a guard twenty four hours a day on the old man’s grave. Every last one of his workers wanted to piss on his grave, he treated them so badly.