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Down at the beach, scores of Greek ships are on the sand.
HECTOR:
Why did you come here?
Achilles gestures at the invading flotilla.
ACHILLES:
They'll be talking about this war
for a thousand years.
HECTOR:
In a thousand years even the dust
from our bones will be gone.
ACHILLES:
Yes, prince. But our names will
remain.
A band of bloodied Myrmidons, led by Eudorus, emerges from
the temple. Hector, surrounded by enemies, warily backs
off.
EUDORUS:
(to Achilles)
The Trojans are dead.
ACHILLES:
Go home, prince. Drink some wine.
Make love to your wife. Tomorrow
we'll have our war.
HECTOR:
You speak of war as if it's a game.
But how many wives wait at Troy's
gate for husbands they'll never see
again?
ACHILLES:
Perhaps your brother can comfort
them. I hear he's good at charming
other men's wives.
Hector stares at Achilles and the Myrmidons for another
EUDORUS:
Why did you let him go?
ACHILLES:
It's too early in the day for
killing princes.
58.
Thousands of Greek soldiers on the beach watch as the
Trojans retreat, many of the archers riding behind their
Apollonian saviors.
Hector mounts his horse and rides back toward the city.
When the Greeks see Achilles climbing onto the temple's
roof they stare in awe, silent.
Achilles raises his bloodied bronze sword toward the sun.
The CLAMOR that erupts from the beach is deafening.
Thousands of men cheering and yelling his name: Achilles!
Achilles!
68 EXT. AGAMEMNON'S SHIP - DAY 68
Agamemnon, still aboard his ship, waits for the gangplank
to be lowered. His dark eyes are cold and hateful as he
listens to the men cheering.
69 EXT. BEACH ENCAMPMENT - LATER 69
Soldiers tug more and more ships onto the sand. From the
landed ships, primitive cranes are already beginning to
lower boxes of provisions, military materiel, and horses.
Achilles walks across the beach, carrying his helmet,
accepting the congratulations of the troops. Ajax,
shirtless, strides over.
AJAX:
Achilles!
Achilles halts. For a moment there seems to be tension in
the air. Everyone watches. Ajax gives Achilles a bear
hug.
AJAX:
You're as fearless as a god.
ACHILLES:
The gods are immortal. What do
they have to fear?
Ajax laughs and releases Achilles.
AJAX:
I'm honored to go to war with you.
Achilles nods and grips the big man's thick arm.
(CONTINUED)
59.
69 CONTINUED:
69ACHILLES:
I don't have to worry about my back
with you behind me.
Achilles continues walking. He sees Odysseus walking down
a gangplank from his ship to the beach.
ACHILLES:
(calling out)
If you sailed any slower, the war
would be over.
ODYSSEUS:
I don't mind missing the beginning
of the war -- as long as I'm here
at the end.
Achilles smiles and keeps walking. He arrives at the
Myrmidon's newly established base. Patroclus, Eudorus,
and the other surviving Myrmidons greet Achilles.
EUDORUS:
We have something to show you.
Achilles follows Eudorus and the grinning Myrmidons to a
large tent twenty yards inland from their beached ship. A
few Myrmidons hammer the last tent pegs deep into the
sand.
Eudorus holds open the tent flap. Achilles looks at his
captain for a moment before entering the tent.
70 INT. ACHILLES' TENT - CONTINUOUS 70
No rugs have been laid down yet, so loot from the temple
has been stacked on the sand: gold chalices, black
amphorae, woven tapestries, goatskins filled with sacred
wine.
But Achilles does not look at this plunder. Bound by the
wrists to the center pole of the tent is Briseis, dressed
in her white robes.
Terrified but trying to retain her composure, she returns
Achilles' stare. Robes torn, hair disheveled, bleeding
from the lip:
she still possesses her innate dignity andstrength. Something changes in Achilles' eyes when he
looks at her.
(CONTINUED)
60.
70 CONTINUED:
70EUDORUS:
The men found her hiding in the
temple. They thought she'd...
please you.
ACHILLES:
Leave us.
Eudorus bows and exits.
Achilles pulls a small, sharp knife from his belt.
Briseis stares at the blade.
Achilles walks over to her and cuts the ropes that bind
her. She sits back, rubbing the chafed skin of her
wrists, still watching Achilles. He sheathes his knife.
ACHILLES:
What's your name?
Briseis stares at him but doesn't answer. Achilles
becomes aware, for the first time, that he's covered in
blood. He wipes a hand across his face. Briseis looks
about the tent, as if searching for a way out.
ACHILLES:
You're safer in this tent than out
there. Believe me.
BRISEIS:
You killed Apollo's priests.
ACHILLES:
I've killed men in five countries.
But never a priest.
BRISEIS:
Then your men did.
(beat)
The Sun God will have his
vengeance.
Achilles removes his bronze grieves.
ACHILLES:
What's he waiting for?
Briseis is stunned by such blunt blasphemy but she can't
take her eyes off him, because Achilles, after all, is
Achilles.
BRISEIS:
The right time to strike.
(CONTINUED)
61.
70 CONTINUED:
(2) 70Achilles removes his breastplate.
ACHILLES:
His priests are dead and his
acolyte's a captive.
(beat)
I think your god is afraid of me.
Briseis laughs bitterly.
BRISEIS:
Afraid? Apollo is master of the
sun. He fears nothing.
Achilles nods and looks around the dark tent.
ACHILLES:
Then where is he?
Briseis has no answer. Achilles smiles and she looks
away.
A bucket of hot water sits beside a washcloth. Achilles
wets the cloth and begins to scrub the blood from his
body.
BRISEIS:
You're nothing but a killer. You
don't know anything about the gods.
ACHILLES:
You haven't seen twenty summers and
you think you know my heart? I
know more about the gods than
(beat)
You're royalty, aren't you?
Briseis says nothing. Achilles smiles again.
ACHILLES:
You've spent years talking down to
men, you must be royalty. What's
your name?
(beat)
Even the servants of Apollo have
names.
BRISEIS:
Briseis.
(CONTINUED)
62.
70 CONTINUED:
(3) 70ACHILLES:
Are you afraid, Briseis?
Briseis is quiet for a moment. She watches Achilles with
a mixture of fear and curiosity.
BRISEIS:
Should I be?
EUDORUS (O.S.)
(calling from outside
the tent)
My lord -
ACHILLES:
What is it?
Eudorus sticks his head inside the tent.
EUDORUS:
presence.
ACHILLES:
Why would I want to look at him
when I can look at her?
EUDORUS:
All the kings are there,
celebrating the victory.
Achilles stands.
ACHILLES:
Give me a moment.
Eudorus withdraws. A long beat while Achilles studies
her.
ACHILLES:
You don't need to fear me, girl.
You're the only Trojan who can say
that.
71 EXT. AGAMEMNON'S TENT - LATER 71
Two muscular GUARDS stand by the opening to Agamemnon's
tent. Achilles, wearing clean clothes, doesn't bother
waiting for the guards' permission to enter; he brushes
past them and through the tent flap.
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