[Movie Script]Patriot, The

				    THE PATRIOT


by
Robert Rodat
October 9, 1998
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EXT.  SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTRYSIDE - DAY



Woodlands.  Beautiful.  Untamed.  Soaring old-growth elms

arch over riverside maples along the shores of the gently

curving, deep-water Santee River.
SUPERIMPOSITION:



				  SOUTH CAROLINA

				    April, 1776
Upstream, the swamps.  Beautiful.  Hundreds of BIRDS SING.

Shafts of sunlight pierce the canopy, cutting through the

hanging moss and kudzu, falling onto soft, swaying ferns

covering the high ground.
The water is clear, with fields of floating lily pads,

each with a stark white flower rising from it.
SUPERIMPOSITION:



		 THE FOLLOWING IS BASED ON A

			TRUE STORY



EXT.  POND BLUFF - DAY


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