[Movie Script]Brothers Bloom, The

                         THE BROTHERS BLOOM


Written by
Rian Johnson


1   EXT. DIRT ROAD - SUNRISE                                      1



Dawn with her rose-red fingers rises over a dusty country

road. A car chugs over the horizon.
                        NARRATOR

              As far as con man stories go,

I think I've heard them all.

Of grifters, ropers, faro fixers,

tales drawn long and tall.

But if one bears a bookmark in

the confidence man's tome,

twould be that of Penelope,

and of the brothers Bloom.
2   EXT. COUNTRY HOUSE - MORNING                                  2



The car deposits two shabby boys (10 & 13) in front of a

country house.
Both in black.   Each with a suitcase.
                        NARRATOR

              At ten and thirteen Bloom and

Stephen (the younger and the old)
3   INT. KITCHEN (FLASHBACK)                                      3


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