SILVR BULLETZ BLAK DUZT
SILVR BULLETZ BLAK DUZT was an independent film, produced in 2007. It won a Silver Remi Award at the 40th Annual Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. The project was written, directed, edited and produced by David Legore, who also played Bo Butler, the central character. The project was completed during a sabbatical from Texas Lutheran University. The story was converted into a stage play in early 2016.
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Synopsis
Two children of the Vietnam War, born on opposite sides of the world, meet by chance at an RV park in central Texas. Proximity, unexpected likenesses, and a joint appreciation for vintage trailers bring them together in a disturbing story that brings new meaning to the concept of “domestic” terrorism.
Bo Butler, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, suffers from Gulf War Syndrome and attributes his illness to contamination from depleted uranium. Having lost his father in Vietnam, and a newborn son to what he swears was radiation poisoning, Bo is hell-bent on revenging the ghosts of wars he blames on “Texas Presidents”—launching a crusade of mischievous pranks throughout the state, in an attempt to heighten awareness of his plight.
Nu Ngyuen, a Vietnamese-American, emigrated to the United States with her mother eleven years after the fall of Saigon to reunite with a father she had never known. Now, twenty years later, Ngyuen camps with her father in an annual tradition dating back to their reunification. Irrepressibly social, she works vigorously to befriend her new neighbor Bo, never guessing the depth of his pain, or the gravity of his secrets.
Somehow, from the radioactive landscape of these nuclear families, a fragile friendship grows. Ultimately, however, the fallout from decades of violence proves to be too much— accidentally leading to tragic results.
Bo Butler, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, suffers from Gulf War Syndrome and attributes his illness to contamination from depleted uranium. Having lost his father in Vietnam, and a newborn son to what he swears was radiation poisoning, Bo is hell-bent on revenging the ghosts of wars he blames on “Texas Presidents”—launching a crusade of mischievous pranks throughout the state, in an attempt to heighten awareness of his plight.
Nu Ngyuen, a Vietnamese-American, emigrated to the United States with her mother eleven years after the fall of Saigon to reunite with a father she had never known. Now, twenty years later, Ngyuen camps with her father in an annual tradition dating back to their reunification. Irrepressibly social, she works vigorously to befriend her new neighbor Bo, never guessing the depth of his pain, or the gravity of his secrets.
Somehow, from the radioactive landscape of these nuclear families, a fragile friendship grows. Ultimately, however, the fallout from decades of violence proves to be too much— accidentally leading to tragic results.

A stage version entitled SILVER BULLETS, BLACK DUST can be found at the New Play Exchange.