[Movie Script]Thunderheart

                                       THUNDERHEART




Written by


John Fusco


Fourth draft


Oct. 5, 1990






A DRUM. Beating slow. And deep. Like a heart.


               FADE IN:



               EXT. THE GREAT PLAINS SOUTH DAKOTA - DAWN



Something is rising from the Black Hills. A sphere of light,

too red to be the sun. A sphere of contained fire, undulating

in crimson and ochre, and rising slowly, majestically, to

the pulse. To the DRUM. It is the sun. But it is a Paha Sapa

sunrise. A Black Hills sunrise. And it is spectacular.


The DRUM, pounds deeper, bigger, as the sun gets higher.

Stronger. Igniting a vast landscape of gentle slopes and

foothills; throwing shadows on the plains that look like, as

the Indians say, an old man dancing. The grass is golden.

And high. The wind moves through it, snakes through it.

Slowly.


               BEGIN CREDITS.




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