horse?
You see...
Im lost.
What use, l should be asking, are questions
like these to an overworked psychiatrist...
in a provincial hospital?
Theyre worse than useless.
They are, in fact...
subversive.
The thing is...
I wearing that horses head myself...
all reined up in old language
and old assumptions...
straining to jump clean-hoofed onto
a new track of being l only suspect is there.
I cant see
horse, holding a lantern
forward on a long pole. He looks back, terrified.
INSERT TITLE: 1799 Sleepy Hollow, New York
THUNDEROUS HOOFBEATS are HEARD behind.
The ugly man glances back again. His lantern swings wild...
SHATTERS against a tree. The jammed-up pole SLAMS the ugly
man off his horse...
He hits the ground. He runs, trips, falls and scrambles up.
DEEP IN THE FOREST, we glimpse the source
horse-drawn taxis) . . . the shreds of sound continue - American woman, flirtatious, intimate: "Youre the only man I know who makes his own clothes." Gandhis laugh . . . The sound of rioting, womens cries and screams of terror . . . An American voice: "This man of peace" . . .
And as the titles end we begin to pick up the sounds of the street . . . an Australian and his wife, a BBC correspondent
horses breath smokes on the frosty air, the buggy
CREAKS on its springs, and theres the rhythmic CLIP-
CLOP OF HOOVES on the pavement.
4 ANOTHER LANE
??
Two Amish buggies reach a crossroads, join a procession
of three others. They disappear as the lane wends
through a leafless thicket of hickory.
5 VALLEY
??
A BIG SHOT... now the procession numbers almost a dozen
buggies... it is headed toward a
The Horse Whisperer
Screenplay by
Eric Roth
Revised by
Richard LaGravenese
Screenplay by
Erich Roth
Based on the Novel by Nicholas Evans
Revised by
Richard LaGravenese
Second Draft
1/21/97
FADE IN:
A DREAM:
INT. STABLES; PILGRIMS STALL - MORNING
Sunlit illuminates the darkened stable, highlighting the
contours of a magnificent HORSE (PILGRIM) in surreal, dream-
like imagery: his legs, his muscle