Ending of "The Machine Stops" Screenplay
INT. INSIDE TRANSPORT TUNNEL, DEAD BODIES LINING THE FLOOR.
DARK, RED LIGHT - CONTINUOUS
Vashti is crawling through tunnel looking for Kuno, her son.
VASHTI
(sobbing)
Where are you?
KUNO(O.S)
(weakly)
Here.
VASHTI
Is there any hope, Kuno?
KUNO(O.S)
None for us.
VASHTI
Where are you?
Vashti crawls over the bodies to Kuno, Kuno's blood spurts
onto her.
ANGLE: SIDE VIEW, CAN SEE BOTH KUNO AND VASHTI'S FACES
KUNO
(gasping)
Quicker,I am dying — but we touch,
we talk, not through the Machine.
Kuno kisses Vashti on the cheek.
KUNO
We have come back to our own. We
die, but we have recaptured life,
as it was in Wessex, when Ælfrid
overthrew the Danes. We know what
they know outside, they who dwelt
in the cloud that is the colour of
a pearl.
VASHTI
(unsure)
But Kuno, is it true? Are there
still men on the surface of the
earth? Is this — this tunnel, this
poisoned darkness — really not the
end?
KUNO
(passionately)
I have seen them, spoken to them,
loved them. They are hiding in the
mist and the ferns until our
civilization stops. To-day they
are the Homeless — to-morrow—
VASHTI
(worried,saddened)
Oh, to-morrow — some fool will
start the Machine again,
to-morrow.
KUNO
Never,never. Humanity has learnt
its lesson.
Slow, sad music plays as the camera zooms out to a view of
the "honeycomb" city.
THE END.
Comments
Post a Comment