Into the Woods Page #20

BAKER:

ALONE...

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WIFE:

SOMETIMES PEOPLE LEAVE YOU/ HALFWAY

THROUGH THE WOOD./ DO NOT LET IT

GRIEVE YOU,/ NO ONE LEAVES FOR GOOD./

YOU ARE NOT ALONE./ NO ONE IS ALONE.

HOLD HIM TO THE LIGHT NOW./ LET HIM

SEE THE GLOW./ THINGS WILL BE ALL

RIGHT NOW./ TELL HIM WHAT YOU KNOW...

BAKER:

Shhhh.

As the Baker holds his son close, the baby begins to calm

down for the first time in his father’s arms and his WIFE

disappears.

The BAKER tells the story to his son -- THE SAME STORY AS WE

HEARD AT THE BEGINNING.

BAKER (CONT’D)WITCH (V.O.)

Once upon a time...in a far CAREFUL THE THINGS YOU SAY,/

off kingdom...there lay a CHILDREN WILL LISTEN./

small village at the edge of CAREFUL THE THINGS YOU DO,/

the woods... And in this CHILDREN WILL SEE./ AND

village lived a young LEARN.

maiden...a carefree young

lad...and a childless

baker...with his wife.

LRRH, JACK, and CINDERELLA join the BAKER.

BAKER WITCH (V.O.)

And one day, the baker and GUIDE THEM ALONG THE WAY,/

his wife were in their shop CHILDREN WILL GLISTEN./

when a witch burst in, CHILDREN WILL LOOK TO YOU/

blowing the door off its FOR WHICH WAY TO TURN,/ TO

hinges... LEARN WHAT TO BE.

WITCH (V.O.)

CAREFUL BEFORE YOU SAY,/ “LISTEN TO

ME.”/ CHILDREN WILL LISTEN.

The light of the new dawn streams down on them, framing the

newly formed family. As the BAKER continues to tell the story

the CAMERA SLOWLY PULLS UP overhead to reveal the vast woods,

now changed by the Giant’s path.

The CAMERA then carries us back beyond the woods and to the

Village where we see the destruction that has visited it.

WITCH & ALL (V.O.)

CAREFUL THE WISH YOU MAKE,/ WISHES ARE

CHILDREN./ CAREFUL THE PATH THEY TAKE-/

WISHES COME TRUE,/ NOT FREE.

CAREFUL THE SPELL YOU CAST,/ NOT JUST

ON CHILDREN./ SOMETIMES THE SPELL MAY

LAST/ PAST WHAT YOU CAN SEE/ AND TURN

AGAINST YOU...

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The CAMERA finally pans up from the Village to the sky and we

are returned to where we began: the grey clouds of an early

morning sky.

WITCH (V.O.)

CAREFUL THE TALE YOU TELL./ THAT IS

THE SPELL./ CHILDREN WILL LISTEN...

FADE TO BLACK:

THE END:

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