[Movie Script]War Horse

                                  WAR HORSE


Written by
Lee Hall & Richard Curtis
          1.



          EXT. DEVON, ENGLAND. A SUMMER'S DAY, 1912.



The bucolic magnificence of the Devon countryside. We fly

low over the high, thick hedges untouched for hundreds of

years. The thick verdant countryside in all its splendor,

ancient woodlands, fields of corn, and finally a paddock in a

typical Devonshire dale.
We come to rest beside three farmers standing over a pregnant

mare. The mare is in distress - she is about to give birth.

The farmers calm the mare and tend to her gently with

assurance and authority.
We pull back to see, ALBERT, a fifteen-year-old farm boy,

watching the whole drama with delight from the paddock gate.
                          FARMER

           Come on, easy, girl. Easy, girl.

Easy.
The men hold the mare firmly, but clearly this is a difficult

birth.
                          FARMER 2


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