- EXT. MOUNTAINTOP POOL - SUNBEAMS BUT NO SUN (DREAM)
- Secluded, fed by waterfall, shallow sloped, sand bottom.
- (00:00 windwhistle - The Atoll/Marquisard)
- TfNi underwater long-glides
breaststroke
approaching
- (00:07 guitar)
- Breaks the surface
walking gracefully slowly up out
and up the easy shore slope; sunlight on her back
- (00:09 voice)
- Sweeps-grabs a lace-sheer robe hanging on a bush
blots her face
slips-in arms
- (00:30 +rhythm)
- Continues dance-walk up; BREEZE tossing her hair forward
- (00:49 rise, voice, faint huffing)
- Stands at the ridge-top; strong WIND pushing her hair
- POV: BEYOND THE RIDGE, ZOOM-IN: TfNi-front:
- (01:24 slow, crunch -begin meld-)
- She gasps in a slow body-centric convulsion
- (01:26 -stop before voice-)
- MELD TO:
- INT. SPACECRUISER - CHILDREN'S HALL - RED (DREAM REPEAT)
- (00:00 heehoo - repeat: Exquisite Marquise/Marquisard)
- POV: TfNi ranger-goggled walks amid personnel scattering
- COLLAGE: Assault at Jupiter: LIGHT FAILS TO GOGGLE VIEW
- (00:08 +rhythm, grinding strains)
- Goggle DATA, FAINT STROBES;-- EXPLOSION INTO HALL, Croakers enter GUNFIRING, Armoried Crew return LASERGUN-PATTERNS
- TRANSPARENT DANIELESQUE Tefen, white robe, golden sash, standing amidst, arms raised to the sky, long hair blowing, ruby eyes, and as-it-were-water dappling about his feet
- (00:17 string, smooth-wipe-spread)
- RESOLVE TO:
- EXT. A NARROW RIVER, SANDBAR AMIDST - (CONTINUOUS LAST)
- Two loin-clothed, oiled MUSCLE-GUARDS: Mr. Michael on this side, Mr. Gabriel the other, facing opposite, arms crossed; TfNi seated unclad (BACKSIDE), breathing hard, reaching up;
DANIELESQUE
- (arms high, prophesying)
- By His irrefutable Word created the Almighty the sun and moon and every star and planet in their courses, and set the heavens in motion;
He spreadeth His understanding before the foundations of the Earth
He weigheth His wisdom upon the scales of the sky
His truth divideth the minds of the nations
- (00:35 cry, tinkle)
DANIELESQUE
- that it should be counted two times and weighed for a time and parted for half a time
and then shall it be parted again for half a time and weighed for a time and counted two times
'til all be fulfilled
.
- EXTENDED VERSION:
- (00:45 voice)
- Windblown Danielesque, arms still raised (cf Moses in battle); TfNi is breathing hard, wordlike apologetic, reaching up as climbing the near guard
- (01:01 +piano)
- B/G: The farside PLAIN FLOODS-UP to mirage-smooth
- B/G COLLAGE: History-footage, reconstructions, overlaps:
- B/G: A lone ark floats on the flood
a dove flies
- (01:10)
- B/G: A long caravan crosses
- (01:19 bark, yell)
- B/G: Abraham's army battles-chases unto Dan
rescues Lot
- (01:28)
- B/G: Fire and brimstone fall: Sodomites flail, fall, sink
- (01:37 piano clash)
- B/G: LIGHTNING STRIKES-- distant gold-capped Pyramid, with rivulets of electricity running down-about all sides
- (01:39 clash)
- AGAIN, a flash-bolt of lightning
but Pyramid stays while:
- B/G: Hebrews Exodus crosses ahead of Egyptian chariots
- (01:47)
- B/G: Solomon's wooden oars+sails ship fleet meanders
- (01:57)
- B/G: Pyramid is Masada: Roman Legions battle Jews atop
- (02:07)
- B/G: Cross-icon horseback Crusaders battle across below
- (02:17 lull, ease)
- B/G: Open sea: World War I flotilla battles across
- (02:27)
- B/G: Open sky: WWII aircraft fleet bombing raid crosses
- (02:37)
- B/G: 1952 Nov. Mike nuclear fusion test
mushroom-cloud
- B/G: Cloud stays; Shuttle-launch spires up through center
- (02:46 shriek -meld-)
- MELD TO:
- INT. GARDEN-SLOPE CAVE - DARK NIGHT, STARS (PRESENT AWAKE)
- MELD TO NEWBORN CRY
- TfNi breathing excessively, wakes-- and comforts infant Eve with word and breast in the dark
calms
ADAM
- Mommy
Are you alright?
TFNI
- (comforting suckling Eve)
- Yes, Adam, I'm alright; I'm sorry I woke you.
ADAM
- Why were you crying?
TFNI
- I wasn't crying, Adam: I was working hard, and got loud; I'll show you what I was working-on, in the morning.
You can go back to sleep now; Thank you. I won't wake you again: I'll work quietly.
ADAM
- (sleepily)
- Okay, Good night.
TFNI
- Good night, dear one.
- (coos quietly to Eve)
- FADE TO:
- EXT. FLOURISHING GARDEN - SUMMER HARVEST EVENING (7TH YEAR)
- PROPERTY: large grove of fruit trees, one pine; vegetables field, wheat field, irrigational canals; sheep corral;
- ANIMALS: a flock of sheep, a tethered Goat; dogs, cats;
- CLAY-STONE: oil oven, worktable, benches, potter's wheel;
- PITCHED-THATCHED: roofed windbreakered fruit-drying racks, teepee cooler, compost pile; boat-raft up at the river;
- TOOLS: spears, long-poles, slings, bow-and-arrows;
- CLAY: ceramic pots, pans; Adam's spaceship toy, cuneiform;
- THATCHED: frond aprons, Eve's step-stool; mattress bed;
- FUR: TfNi's clothes, straw-bed fur sheet, Eve's doll toy;
- ODDS AND ENDS: clay-wood whistle-chimes thatch-string-hung in trees; reed whistle-flutes; shiny snailshells; toys;
- B/G: ADAM (8) (BACKSIDE), tends in the garden, counting fruits, logged on a clay-tablet, long-poling birds, pruning 'V' branches, watering, composting around trees; some fruit is bird-eaten, one particularly mushy on a near low branch;
- INT. CAVE
- EVE (6), plays on the fur-covered bed with her doll
- Pauses
runs outside:
- EXT. - (CONTINUOUS)
- TfNi is busy cooking; Doll in hand, Eve runs to her Goat
- Takes the leash and leads it down
to--
- Adam
and watches
EVE
- (a few beats)
- Do you have to count the fruits again, Adam?
ADAM
- Mommy says we don't forget to count the fruitage with gratitude every harvest season.
EVE
- (points doll at a mushy)
- Ooh
I don't count that one:- It's mushy
The birds ate it already.
ADAM
- We don't eat the mushy fruit, Eve;- Mommy says we count all, the fruit, the trees make so we know what good we did the trees by tending them.
EVE
- I count only good fruit.
ADAM
- Mommy says we need to know how much more fruit is on the trees we tend, compared to the tree we did not
.
EVE
- Why do you count the mushy fruit?
ADAM
- Mommy says
Eve
The trees grow the fruit they grow which is good
The trees do not grow fruit mushy
The birds do that
Mommy says we count the same fruit on the trees we tend as the tree we do not tend.
EVE
- Why do you count the fruit I am not going to eat?
ADAM
- (a beat)
- Eve, We are not eating any of these fruits until I count them
.
EVE
- How many fruits are on that tree?
ADAM
- A hundred and forty-four;- And that is three-and-a-half times better than the tree I did not tend with water and composted dung and leaf.
EVE
- Is that enough?
ADAM
- Mommy says it is a good amount.
EVE
- Is the fruit ready to eat?
ADAM
- Soon
maybe tomorrow some and next week. I must finish counting these.
EVE
- Okay. Don't let the birds eat them any more before next week:- I'm hungry.
TFNI (OS)
- Adam, Eve: It's time to finish-up and be getting ready for dinner.
ADAM
- (to Eve)
- Be sure to feed my animals before dinner time.
EVE
- (draws Goat away)
- Come-on, Go-at: It's time for you to go-at your dinner.
- She bring Goat to--
- FOREGROUND: TfNi is at the oven.
- Eve gathers animal food from yesterday's-basket
TFNI
- Are you feeding the Go-at?
EVE
- Yes.
- (considers a beat)
- Mommy?
TFNI
- Yes, dear?
EVE
- Why does that tree in the middle of Adam's garden, grow without fruit when he tends it?- It doesn't look broken
.
TFNI
- Eve: Each tree has its own God-known purpose for man: That pine is a tree that lives only and produces seeds to grow more pine trees.
It has some qualities useful for cleaning, too.
- (again)
- Many things grow without fruit, Eve;- And many with very small fruits; And we keep some of each, to remind us to prove that we have Godly work to do
Not everything we do is for feeding man.
EVE
- Okay.
- She returns with Goat and food to--
- MID FOREGROUND WATER: Feeds it, pets it
and other pets
- TfNi near-steps on Adam's clay toy spaceship by the oven.
TFNI
- Adam: I've told you to keep your toy spaceships away from the oil-oven, so we don't step on them.
ADAM
- I did;- Eve took it: You told me to not stop her.
TFNI
- Eve: Did you leave Adam's spaceship near the oil-oven?
EVE
- (frustrated)
- It's just a clay-toy: It doesn't really fly through space.
TFNI
- Eve: Come here.
- (awaits)
- Eve leashes Goat to post
comes to TfNi
TFNI
- (continues close-softly)
- Eve: We must appreciate our ability to be watchful of the desires of each other,- to care as we would have our own desires cared-for
- (a beat)
- Can you do this, Eve?
EVE
- (ponders)
- Yes.
TFNI
- Now, How about returning Adam's spaceship, and thanking him for letting you play with it for a while?
EVE
- (picks-up his spaceship)
- Okay, Mommy.
- (cradles it
to him)
- Thank you, Adam: I liked playing with your spaceship.
ADAM
- (stops, and takes it)
- Thank you, Eve
for refueling it
- (a quick flight-of-fancy)
- Shooh
shooh
shooh
TFNI
- Eve: Would like to help me make dinner?
- Eve brings a wooden step-stool and her body-apron to TfNi
EVE
- Yes.
- And sets it
and steps-up
TfNi ties her apron
TFNI
- (positions stirrer)
- Nothing should ever become over-done:- Keep stirring the whole pot while it is over the stove-fire,- and stir into the corners, so that the whole cooks evenly.
EVE
- (cooperates, stirring)
- How much is over-done?
TFNI
- Food is cooked only so that it yields quickly to man's desire: Never waste your resources cooking.
EVE
- What's a resource?
TFNI
- What God has already provided, and men have located and gathered.
EVE
- So, the fire-oil and sticks in the oven are resources
and the fish. Is clay a resource?- It's everywhere.
TFNI
- Not all clay is good for making pots, so, yes, pot-clay is:-- A resource must be recognized, too.
EVE
- Is fire a resource?
TFNI
- We use it, -and it requires our resources,- but it has no place but what we give it
so we call it a technique, and we must apply our techniques to use our resources efficiently and not waste anything.
EVE
- Okay. How much fire do we apply to cook dinner?
TFNI
- We control the oven-fire by placing more or less oil-and-stick-resource in it
and we adjust the oven-air-vent to control how well it burns:- We don't want hot smoke from the oven: That's not fiery hot and it's not fully burned:- so it will waste our resource sticks and oil to make smoke.
EVE
- Why doesn't the sunlight-beam cook our food for us? It's brighter than this hot oven-fire, and it doesn't smoke.
TFNI
- The chemistry of cooking is heat, not light, and the sun is so far away from the Earth that it cannot give us much heat but what warms our day. If we could gather more sunlight to focus on our pot we could cook, but we'd also have to stir it because the light stops at the surface of the pot, and does not cook inside
.
EVE
- (pondering)
- Is the sunlight-beam a resource? It has a place it comes-from. How can we gather it?
TFNI
- Yes, sunlight is a resource; But it's not easy to gather: We'd need a reflector like the surface of the water in the river-pools where you see your face looking back at you.
EVE
- (recognizing)
- Oh!
- DISSOLVE TO:
- EXT. DRY RIVER GULLY - WAY TO NILE - LATE SUMMER AFTERNOON
- Ra, Shw, apart, watch as a HUNDRED LOCALS search for gold bits
gathering to the half-full barge on a wet-sand path along a row of full water vessels
Ptah comes uphill
PTAH
- (nearing Ra, loud)
- Shw
!
RA
- Ra.
- (points to Shw)
- Shw comes over
PTAH
- (puzzled to Shw)
- Ra
?
SHW
- Shw.
PTAH
- (to Ra)
- Ra
?
RA
- (nods Yes)
- Ra.
PTAH
- (to Shw)
- Shw
SHW
- (nods Yes)
- Shw.
PTAH
- (a beat between)
- Shw
I think, Ra and I can handle this river and west from here-on
There's not a lot more we can do until we get more collectors
.
- (a beat eastward)
- We had assigned you the east of the abyss sea
should be plenty there; plenty more mankind
They're easy-enough to train:- Just watch-out if they start killing and eating each other
Can't say that's useful
.
SHW
- (thinking aloud)
- Yes
We need find better ways of feeding them, and, keeping them docile
They're good at fighting-off intruders, but they don't know their own, differences, sometimes.
RA
- We should train, them, farming, for themselves
But, they are most all subsistence-meat-eaters: hardly few will touch a fruit, even if you eat right facing, them
. It might take generations, to start
. Meanwhile, there aren't many animals; And goat herds will need grassland
They're not skills-ready to farm fish
.
PTAH
- Well, Sleep on it, Ra: Find a way
You always do
before the morning.
- (a beat, turns)
- Right now, I think we best call it a day for an evening
It's too hot to work, And they need watering
- (loud waving)
- Hoy
! Hoy
!
- The Hundred workers hoist and bring their last gold trays
- Those nearest start watering the sand path
And with a heave-jerk, several push the barge down the wetted path
- The rest faster-walking hurrying to catch-up and unload
- FADE TO:
- EXT. CAVE, PISON - BEDTIME EVENING STARS, NEW CRESCENT MOON
- The north polar sky displays a BRIGHT, SMALL-CIRCLED NOVA.
- (00:00 vowels, talk - Aldebaran/Enya)
- Eve, Adam, TfNi, ready for bed, file-in easy-pace quietly
- INT. - (CONTINUOUS)
- (00:06 doodles, stirs)
- Eve climbs onto the thatch-sheeted bed, by herself
- But Adam first tends to his scratch-clay moon-record tally:
TFNI
- (watching Adam)
- You remembered by yourself
?
ADAM
- (finishes tally-scratch)
- Yes.
TFNI
- How many new-moons do you have now?
ADAM
- (counts 46: 2x2x2x5+6)
- One, two: score
plus five and its sixth plus the two Ners you counted before
Four score, and six.
- Stows it; And climbs onto the bed
and--
- TfNi tucks them under the fur cover-blanket
ADAM
- Mommy?
- (waits for attention)
- What kind of star has a circle around it?
TFNI
- Where did you see that, Adam?
ADAM
- (looks up; points north)
- It's there, outside:- where it was every night, But it didn't have a circle around it: It was just big and round, and very bright.
TFNI
- Let's see it, Adam.
- Adam slides out, down, and leads TfNi back outside
- Eve slides out, down, by herself, and follows out
- EXT. - (CONTINUOUS)
- Adam is pointing north at the Circled Nova; TfNi looking
TFNI
- (gazing)
- Dear God of all harmony: What have you planned for us
?
- (a beat, resumes)
- Adam: How long have you seen that star?
- (00:51 ahh)
ADAM
- About a month, and it was getting brighter than all the other stars: But it doesn't move like a planet or comet.
EVE
- What is it, Mommy?
TFNI
- It's a supernova, Eve:- A star that was, ten times bigger than our sun, burning ten-thousand times faster and hotter, than our sun:- Then it burst-open with the brilliance of ten, billion, suns.
EVE
- (ponders 2 beats)
- How much is a billion?
ADAM
- A huge, whole galaxy of stars
!
- (01:31 low vowels)
TFNI
- Remember how we practiced counting to a thousand by counting ten tens of ten?!
EVE
- Yes.
TFNI
- If we practice counting to a thousand, again and again until we've practiced a thousand times, we've counted a thousand thousands, which is a million.
Then, counting to a billion is doing all that, as many times practiced again
.
- (01:52 second vowels)
ADAM
- Will there be people coming from the supernova to visit us?
TFNI
- It's far away, Adam, --but not too far away:-- They know what planets are reachable; and may be thousands of years, to get as far as we are.
- (02:14 exult)
ADAM
- Mr. Gabriel said we came from a supernova long ago, before we lived on our spaceship:- How did we find this planet?
EVE
- (injects)
- Adam: Stop telling stories about Mr. Gabriel.
TFNI
- There are planets and stars in every direction, everywhere, Adam; This planet was on our path;- And it was thousands of years ago that we lived at the other sun.
ADAM
- (to Eve)
- Mr. Gabriel was my teacher: He told everyone the truth.
TFNI
- Adam, Hush: Eve would have loved Mr. Gabriel, too.
- (02:54 fade)
- They admire the sky of its stars
.
- (03:02 -out-)
- FADE TO:
- EXT. GARDEN HARVEST - DENSE BUSHES - MIDDAY (13TH YEAR)
- Early harvest, expansive, flourishing, not all ripe yet.
- TfNi (OS:DISTANT) searching all directions, walking across;
TFNI (OS:DISTANT)
- (calling)
- Eve,- Adam!?
- (00:00 chimes - Fairytale/Enya)
- PULL IN GRADUALLY
- ADAM (14) speaks senatorially-deliberately; EVE (12) quick-responds sweetly, emotion-ranging; they descant:
ADAM
- Snakes do not talk: You do the talking for them.
EVE
- Mr. Gabriel doesn't talk: You do the talking for him
.
ADAM
- I've seen your snakes: They don't really talk.
EVE
- I've never seen your Mr. Gabriel: He isn't real.
ADAM
- He is, too, real: He was my teacher;- He was like Daddy.
EVE
- Mommy told you about Daddy: I believe her, not you.
- (00:20 double chime)
ADAM
- You don't always do what she tells you: You believe yourself.
EVE
- I'm a child: I don't know how to do what Mommy tells me all the time.
- PULLING IN: A patch of trees
Adam, Eve, hid amid bushes;
TFNI (OS:DISTANT)
- (calling)
- Adam!
ADAM
- You are trying to be disobedient: You might die if you don't grow-up.
TFNI (OS:DISTANT)
- (calling)
- Eve!
EVE
- (places a leaf-cloth)
- Let's make clothes:- You can grow-up first.
- (00:40 +high chime)
ADAM
- Mommy makes clothes from animal furs, not from tree leaves.
EVE
- (retorts)
- We do not have any animal furs: You grow only leaves on your trees.
ADAM
- Mommy assigned me responsibility for tending the fruit trees too.
EVE
- You can't wear fruits: You can't even touch the forbidden fruit.
ADAM
- The trees I tend grow more, better fruit, than the forbidden tree.
- (01:00 voice dahdah, horn)
EVE
- The forbidden fruit looks just as good as yours: And it's real
.
ADAM
- Mommy says death is just as real for the disobedient.
EVE
- (elucidates)
- You'll never know what is real, until you try it.
ADAM
- Mommy says we must never tempt death with our lives,-- nor evil with good.
- PULL IN: Adam, Eve, wearing hand-fashioned leaf-clothing; half-eaten fruit scattered on the ground.
TFNI (OS:CLOSING)
- (calling)
- Adam!
EVE
- (exasperates)
- You're always repeating Mommy: Be a man, not a mommy.
TFNI (OS:CLOSING)
- (calling)
- Eve!
ADAM
- Mommy says we grow-up most rapidly by being obedient.
EVE
- How did you prove that?- Did she compare you to a forbidden man
?!
ADAM
- Mommy says we are not to harm the men of Earth, and their children.
EVE
- (whimpers)
- That leaves only me and Mommy: You should repeat me, too.
ADAM
- (ponders)
- You're only my little sister, right now.
EVE
- (pouts)
- How do you think Mommy got to be a mommy
?!
- Adam kisses her cheek to quiet her;- the fantasy fades
- (01:59 fade to quiet "mmm", strings)
TFNI (OS:NEAR)
- (arriving yet calling)
- Adam, Eve: Where are you?!
EVE
- (whimpering loud)
- Mommy: Adam is bothering me again!
ADAM
- Eve is telling stories about talking snakes.
TFNI
- (present, treading)
- Adam, Eve: I've been calling and looking for you!
ADAM
- We were here,-- hiding.
TFNI
- (notes leaf-clothes)
- Why were you hiding?
EVE
- (dejected)
- Because we don't have clothes like yours, Mommy.
ADAM
- We don't have animal furs to make clothes.
EVE
- And tree-leaves don't make very good clothes:
- (self-examines)
- See
?!
TFNI
- (considers)
- And, What is this talk about snakes?
EVE
- Adam doesn't believe me!
TFNI
- Doesn't believe you about what, Eve?
EVE
- That the snake answered me when I spoke to it.
TFNI
- What did you tell the snake?
- (02:39 quieter)
EVE
- I told it
I spoke the truth, to the snake: like you said I must.
TFNI
- The truth about what, dear?
EVE
- That God created it to understand His untrembling resolve.
TFNI
- What was the snake doing, Eve?
EVE
- (imitates shivers)
- It was, shivering, and jerking about
It was very afraid.
TFNI
- And what did the snake answer you?
- (03:00 oomph, end -out-)
EVE
- It's voice informed my thought: The broader the idea, the calmer is the understanding
Mommy,--
- (whimpers again)
- What does that mean?
TFNI
- (ponders)
- It means, Eve: You can cherish the idea of loving good.
ADAM
- Mommy: Eve also took some of the fruit from the forbidden tree.
TFNI
- (to Adam)
- And did you eat some of it?
ADAM
- She gave it to me: She said it was good fruit.
TFNI
- (begins lecture-review)
- Adam, We discussed this thoroughly: You must eat only of the fruit of your own tending: You must prove to yourself that tree-tending is good: that the trees you tend make more fruit than the untended tree; Never eat of the tree of laziness knowing both good times and evil,-- though that is right in the midst of your own tending:- That tree is there to show you that a tree already grows by itself, and you must tend, your, trees, to improve their yield: lest you die in the evil times
. You do not eat seeds, like the bird in the tree of life without fruitage,- And you can't eat Life itself, like the Creator.
You cannot have abstract immortality, Adam: You must live
now first completely: And, you must teach your children, to prove for themselves
. I cannot forever pick for you the fruits of Truth:- I can give you the seeds of the garden of Truth, And you must plant, nurture, and tend, forever and your children after you: Do you understand me, Adam
?!
ADAM
- Yes, Mommy.
TFNI
- (a beat, stern)
- Now you know the fruit tastes the same
- Adam looks placidly admissive, as the truth sinks in
TFNI
- (a beat, realistic)
- And you also know the difference between the good way to tend the fruit, and the evil way
- (a beat, to Eve)
- Eve: How did you know it was good fruit?
EVE
- It looks good, the same as from the other trees; And it tasted good.
TFNI
- But, dear one, Obedience is also good, and much more for you to do: The fruit is obedient to its tree, and yields to Adam's tending
EVE
- (cries)
- Yes, Mommy: I'm sorry.
TFNI
- You'll want to keep your obedience forever, after you've eaten.
- (a beat, relents a bit)
- I'll show you how to make clothes of fish skins
.
- DISSOLVE TO:
|
The Son Dey School of Christ Science