[Movie Script]Lincoln

                           LINCOLN


Written by
Tony Kushner
Based in Part on
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
Final Shooting Script

December 20, 2011
          EXT. BATTLEFIELD, JENKINS' FERRY, ARKANSAS - DAY



Heavy grey skies hang over a flooded field, the water two

feet deep. Cannons and carts, half-submerged and tilted,

their wheels trapped in the mud below the surface, are still

yoked to dead and dying horses and oxen.
A terrible battle is taking place; two infantry companies,

Negro Union soldiers and white Confederate soldiers, knee-

deep in the water, staggering because of the mud beneath,

fight each other hand-to-hand, with rifles, bayonets,

pistols, knives and fists. There's no discipline or strategy,

nothing depersonalized: it's mayhem and each side intensely

hates the other. Both have resolved to take no prisoners.
           HAROLD GREEN (V.O.)


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