马语者（英文对白）

FADE IN:

A DREAM:

INT. STABLES; PILGRIM'S STALL - MORNING

Sunlit illuminates the darkened stable, highlighting the

contours of a magnificent HORSE (PILGRIM) in surreal, dream-

like imagery: his legs, his muscles, his sheen, his mane...

his eyes. He shakes his head and stamps his feet. He seems

confined. Eager to run.

INT. STABLES - MORNING

Pilgrim bursts through the stall and runs out the stables

into a blinding white morning.

EXT. AN OPEN FIELD LEADING TO WOODS - BRIGHT MORNING

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Whiteness. Snow and sky without any discernible line between.

 

Camera is POV, as if on the horse, riding through the

whiteness. Snow kicks up from the side. We hear the breathing

of the horse. As we travel on hills, through trees, we

experience of sense of wild, exhilarating freedom.

 

We hear the giggles of a GIRL (GRACE) on the horse. An

occasional line;

 

GRACE (O.S.)

Yeah, fly boy... that's it... go...

go... go...

 

END OF DREAM as we CUT TO:

 

INT. GRACE'S BEDROOM - MORNING

 

Grace awakens, calmly. Takes a breath. Slides out of bed and

stands before a window, overlooking a beautiful ffice:smarttags" />Connecticut

country house. We see a snow-covered field and distant woods.

Grace presses her faces against the cold, frosted window

eager to get out.

 

INT. MACLEAN NEW YORK APARTMENT - MORNING

 

Alarm rings, ANNIE MACLEAN awakens. She shuts the alarm and

scoots up in bed. She waits. Seconds later the television

across the foot of her bed turns on from a timer -- to a CNN

24 NEWS channel.

 

INT. HALLWAY/ANNIE & ROBERT'S BEDROOM - MORNING

 

Grace, fully dressed except for her boots, tiptoes past a

partially opened bedroom door. Her father ROBERT is asleep,

alone, on his huge king size bed.

 

INT. MACLEAN FARMHOUSE KITCHEN - MORNING

 

Grace is putting on her boots on a bench beside a back door.

She is wearing her mother's outfit. As she slides the boot

on, we see behind her a row of framed photos -- Robert, Grace

and Annie in happy times.

 

She slaps a note on the refrigerator, with a magnet -- "Gone

riding. Back around 10. Love, G."

 

EXT. MACLEAN FARMHOUSE, BACK ENTRANCE - MORNING

 

Grace slips on her jacket and hat as she comes down the

steps, her feet hitting the walk...

 

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Annie's feet hit the ground, running -- her breath showing in

the cold air. She passes other joggers with ease. She crosses

the street and heads for an elegant CPW building.

 

INT. MACLEAN'S NEW YORK APARTMENT - MORNING

 

Dressed in running clothes, Annie opens the door and picks up

several newspapers that were delivered. She carries them into

the kitchen and sets them beside a huge stack of publications,

magazines, papers, etc... Knowing she must read all of them at

some point, she breathes a disgusted sign. She thumbs through

the POST as she pours herself a cup of coffee. Something

catches her eyes and she snarls:

 

ANNIE

That little ****!