[Movie Script]Jane Eyre

                                  JANE EYRE


Written by
Moira Buffini
Adapted from the novel by
Charlotte Bronte
                                                           2ND DRAFT

                                                      6TH MARCH 2008


          EXT. A MIDSUMMER DAWN. THORNFIELD - THE GROUNDS.



First light. Jane Eyre is running across a meadow, flushed

and breathless; the hem of her plain, black dress soaked

with dew. She carries a shawl and has a small bag of

belongings over her shoulder.
She trips, falls to her knees; looks back. Expressive eyes,

open features. She is desperate. We see the house she is

running from; a Jacobean battlemented mansion.
Her need to escape is so great that she crawls forward

until she is able to raise herself to her feet. She runs.
She reaches an antique stile by a brook. She lifts herself

on to it. She lands on the road. And runs.
          I/E. DAY. A ROADSIDE/COACH.


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