green plain leaping laughing they run
16 And wash in a river and shine in the Sun.
17 Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
18 They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind.
19 And the Angel told if he'd be a good boy,
20 He'd have God for his father & never want joy.
21 And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
22 And got with our bag & our brushes to work
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Our story begins in 1965, on a hot afternoon in August.
FADE IN
EXT. IOWA LANDSCAPE - DAY
Rolling green hills, lush farmland, vast open space. Not a
house or sign of life in sight. On a long dusty road, a TRUCK
is driving across the screen. Clouds of dirt follow in its
tracks -- its motor, the only sound we hear.
INT. TRUCK - DAY
FRANCESCA JOHNSON is sitting in t
Note: Hows this for a change from the finished product?!? ... and NO mention of the powerful Opening Vistas! This is how the script begins ...
[FADE IN]
The screen is a microcosm of leaf, crystal drops of precipitation, a stone, emerald green moss. Its a landscape in miniature. We HEAR the forest. Some distant birds. Their sound seems to reverberate as if in a cavern. A piece of sunlight refracts
LANDSCAPE - AFRICAN TERRAIN - DAWN
Rivers, gleaming in the sun, thread like spaghetti through
a geography of jungle terrain, perfectly matching the
patterns of the virus landscape.
SUPER: ZAIRE, AFRICA - EBOLA RIVER REGION - SEPT. - 1976
A Fokker light air transport descends into view.
THE JUNGLE - LOOKING UP - CONTINUING ACTION
As the transport busses overhead, AFRICAN GREEN MONKEYS,
hundreds of