Gettysburg Script
In June 1863 after more than two years
of bloody conflict...
the Confederate army of Northern
Virginia, Robert E. Lee commanding...
slips across the Potomac
to begin the invasion of the North.
It is an army of men.
They move slowly behind the Blue Ridge...
using the mountains
to screen their movements.
Their objective is to draw
the Union army out into the open...
where it can b
ridge in his borrowed
poncho. He looks back at the valley below, inhales deeply--
this is a man who loves his walks.
He pulls a piece of toast from his pocket and starts to
nibble as he presses up on the ridge...
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Low angle: nursing home and ridge beyond
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...and we see Paul from a distance, just a speck trudging up
toward the treeline. A PICKUP TRUCK rumbles into frame and
parks, a bumper sti
ridges over the eye-sockets, yet he unmistakably holds in his genes the promise of humanity. As he looks out now upon the hostile world, there is already something in his gaze beyond the grasp of any ape. In those dark, deep-set eyes is a dawning awareness-the first intimations of an intelligence which would not fulfill itself for another two million years.
EXT. THE STREAM - THE OTHERS
As the daw
Fine. Now
hold Eric for five more minutes til Im
ready for work.
HAROLD
Hello. Im gonna take you to a mountain
with me. Yeah, a mountain. Give me a
kiss.
TAYLOR
Listen Carl, all you have to do is go
hack in there and testify what you saw
those guys do. Just tell the Court the
truth. Then Ill drop the "accessory to
second degree murder" down to
"aggravated assault" plus we forget all
mountain; the north
face of Chomolungma - a peak also known as Mount Everest -
twenty-nine thousand feet high.
We hear a very young boy speak.
BOY (VO)
Mama, my story.
A woman speaks:
WOMAN (VO)
Again?
BOY (VO)
Tell me.
Portrait of a mountain - Khangbochen - craggy peaks covered
with snow, twenty-four thousand feet high.
WOMAN (VO)
Your father had been very ill,
We thought he would die, and some