Legend Page #4

JACK(cont)(OS):
There's no creature with more

power or magic. . . . As long as they roam the earth,

evil cannot harm the pure of heart. . . .

23 EXTERIOR LARGE BOULDER OPPOSITE CLEARING DAY

The three goblins crouch hiding.

BLUNDER(disgusted): Ugly one-horned mules!

BLIX:
Shhh!

24 EXTERIOR CLEARING DAY

The Princess is entranced.

LILI:
Such grace. . . . Can you speak

their language?

JACK:
A little. . . .it's very hard.

Unicorns talk only of love and laughter.

Dark thoughts are almost impossible for

them to express.

LILI:
Oh Jack. . . I must touch one.

JACK(alarmed):
No!

LILI:
I want to!

Jack restrains the Princess when she attempts to get up from hiding.

JACK:
It is forbidden. These are sacred

animals.

LILI:
Nothing is forbidden me!

JACK:
Don't ever say that! You risk

your immortal soul.

Lili pulls free and steps into the clearing.

LILI:
You sound like my confessor. . . .

I only want to touch one.

The Princess strides defiantly into the open meadow.

The unicorns watch the girl from across the stream. They snort and

paw the ground.

Lili stands alone, holding her arms to the unicorns.

LILI(singing):
Like a child feels watching a rainbow.

Like a brid feels the first time it flies

I feel magic stirring within me,

When I look in my true love's eyes.

The Stallion's nostrils flare. His strong neck arches. Sunlight

gleams on his horn as he charges.

From Lili's POV the stallion is terrifying as he thunders towards

her acroos the stream.

The stallion rears and prances, racing around the Princess as if

drawn foward on an invisable lead.

Jack watches from the underbrush, his outrage tinged with more than

a touch of jealously.

25 EXTERIOR BOULDER DAY

Blix, Pox and Blunder peer from their hiding-place. Evil leers

brighten their impish features.

POX(whipering):
M-m-might as well be fish

in a barrel. . . One would hope for a

t-t-touch more sp-p-port. . . .

Blix clamps his hand over Pox's mouth.

BLIX:
Pox! Shut your yap!

26 EXTERIOR CLEARING DAY

The lureof the virgin is too strong for the unicorn to resist. Lili

makes no move as the trembling stallion stands before her, the

rapier tip of his horn pressed against her breast. It is obvious he

could kill her is an instant.

The Princess calmly reaches out and caresses his muzzle.

LILI(singing):
When the darkness falls like a curtain

And the rivers and streams turn to ice,

I have summer and daylight forever

When I look in my true love's eyes.

Across the stream, the mare paces back and forth, obviously

agitated.

27 EXTERIOR BEHIND THE BOULDER DAY

Blix pulls a long black flute from his quiver. He takes a dried

hornet from a black snail-shell with a hinged lid and slips it into

his flute, aiming the instrument like a blowgun.

BLUNDER:
Steady....take your time....

Don't miss...

Blix silences the foolish golbin with a ferocious scowl. His cheeks

puff. There is a soft PHUT of expelled breath.

28 EXTERIOR CENTRE OF CLEARING DAY

The poisened hornet sails the air and strikes the hornet on the

haunch.

Stung, the unicorn bolts through the clearing, disappearing into the

undergrowth with the mare hard on his heels.

The Princess stands be confused and bewildered.

Distant THUNDER disturbs the tranquility.

Jack rushes to Lili's side.

LILI:
Oh, Jack, it was so lovely...

like a dream.

JACK(angry):
You're lucky it wasn't a

nightmare!

LILI:
Don't be such a scold.... Come,

I'll chase your fears away.

The Princess takes Jack by the hand and leads him from the clearing.

29 EXTERIOR FOREST (UNICORN HUNT) DAY

The unicorns plunge through brambles and fern clumps. Leaping a

deadfall log, the stallion stumbles. He struggles to his feet and

continues running.

The three goblins gallop pell-mell on their devilish steeds. There

is nothing comical about them now.

30 EXTERIOR RING POND DAY

Jack and Lili sit atop a high promontory jutting over a crystalline

pond.

LILI:
Sweet William did a-hunting go,

In the wood where faeries dwell.

From dawn to dusk roamed he to and fro,

Lost, O lost, all under thier spell.

31 EXTERIOR FOREST (UNICORN HUNT) DAY

The stallion stagger, his gait increasingly unstable as the poisen

takes effect.

The mare nuzzle his flank where the envenomed hornet struck. It is a

virulent ound, red and swollen.

The war-like SHOUTING of the goblins grows even closer.

The unicorns pause at a fork in the trail. The stallion motions with

his head. Sadly, the mare compreheads and flees down the divergent

path to safetly.

The stallion stands his ground. When the three goblin hunters gallop

towards him, he turns and limps into the woods.

32 EXTERIOR RING POND DAY

Jack lies beside Lili, listening raptly to her poem.

LILI(reciting):
Came he at last to where bluebells grow,

He heard them ring, 'tis true to tell.

He lay him down and did not know

The flower's sound was his own death knell.

And while he slept came teh lady fair,

And gathered him up behind her saddle.

Now, all young hunters of bluebells beware

Sweet William rode straight through the

gate of Hell.

Jack is lost in Lili's smile.

JACK:
When I get to heaven, I know just

how the angels will sound.

LILI(enjoying it): Do you flatter all the girls

like that, Jack?

JACK(embaressed) It's the truth.

Lili kisses Jack sweetly. He doesn't respond.

LILI(smiling):
Are you afraid of my kiss?

JACK:
I'm afraid you'll break my heart.

LILI:
Then still your heart... You

are dear to me as life itself.

JACK:
Only because I amuse you...Like some

trained bear!

LILI:
That's not true! I do love

you, Jack. You must believe me!

JACK:
And if I so....no good can come

from it. I am only a Green Man, without

land or title...no name or wealth to

bring you.

The Princess her golden ring on and off her finger.

LILI:
What does it matter. I don't care

about any of that.

JACK:
But it does matter....! If not

now....Someday. What about when the time

comes for you to marry?

LILI:
I want to marry you.

JACK:
That's impossible!

LILI:
Not if it's what you really

want, Jack.

Lili shows Jack her ring.

LILI(cont):
Don't you wish this was our

wedding ring?

JACK:
What if I say yes...? Will my wish

come true?

LILI:
It is my right as a princess to

set a challenge for my suitors.

Lili throws her ring high over their heads. It glitters through the

air, tumbling over and over in the long drop to the pond.

LILI(cont):
I will marry whoever finds this

ring.

The ring spalshes into the cnetre of the pond. Jack strips off his

leafy cloak and dives headlong from the cliff.

33 EXTERIOR UNICORN DEATH ARENA DAY

Sweat-streaked, the unicorn staggers out of the tree onto a sweeping

green meadow brilliant with pink bloosoms. Froth bubbles on his

nostrils. His wide azure eyes betray his panic.

The goblins ride onto the flower-bright meadow. They jump down from

their mounts in a frenzy.

BLUNDER(excited): We got him now....!

We got him now!

The stallion stumbles forawrd, making a last futile effort to attack

the goblins. Limbs leaden, head hanging, the noble animal settles

against a sapling and slides to the ground.

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