LazyGMiddleman
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I was going to send this into InkTip an try to sell it, do these few pages entice you to read further, what could be improved, some help needed I haven't written a serious script in a long long time. Thanks in advance. Here's the file copied and pasted.
“The Devil’s Purse”
A Screenplay by
Nicholas F. Gervasi
NARRATOR (V.O.)
Only the fires of hell could of bound that evil book.
FADE IN:
INT. FIRERY HELL
A lizard like sweaty hand meticulously writes page after page in a leather bound book. We never see this beings face that it is the Devil in demon form.
INTERCUT WITH MONTAGE:
SOUND FX: War Screams of death and those of victory. Battle noises, metal on metal. Horses galloping.
EXT. DESERT BATTLEGROUNDS - DAY
CLOSE-UPS:
Helmeted Asian, Dark-skinned, Arab, Pale white bearded ones.
CUT TO:
INT. DESERT TENT - NIGHT
A group huddles and laughs in armor staring at the floor of a tent at the book. We see their faces as they think they have it made and celebrate.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
The purse came down through the ages… passing through the blood soaked hands of barbarians, kings and queens, warlords; men and women with an unquenchable thirst for greed… slowly but surely it never remained in any kingdom for any long length of time.
CUT TO:
EXT. DESERT TENT - NIGHT
The tent is burned down and men fall out of it screaming and moaning in agony. A new tribe of men pick up the book from the sand and take it with them.
SFX: DEMONIC LAUGHTER
CUT TO:
CLOSE-UP:
Those lizard like hands rubbing together.
CUT TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY
A beach filled with corpses, CAMERA PANS ALONG sand of them. There is a group of women and children in chains being led over the dead bodies of their fallen sons and husbands.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
As the devil laughed in hell cities and civilizations fell, hearts and minds were corrupted, and the evil stench of the slave trade permeated the four winds.
CUT TO:
EXT. DOCK - DAY
A man whipping his leather whip at slaves holds a copy of the book as he boards the same group on a dock and boat headed for England.
INT. BOAT AT SEA - DAY
The captain in his cabin filled with riches drinks wine and is rubbed by two slave girls. A slave boy creeps outside with a knife rushes in and the two girls rush out. The ship tosses and turns in the ocean.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
In it’s beginning-less history, no one read the fine print of the book, that four of an order were allowed to use its power for personal gain but if this was abused vengeance would be taken by the one who writes this.
CUT TO:
TITLE:
England The 1800’s.
EXT. ENGLISH SHORE – DAY
The broken remains of a ship. The book lays on the shore beside the dark waters of England. A wanderer dressed in rags, the poor Brisby of the story finds it under some boards and takes it with him.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
Post-crusades England was ready when the book reappeared in an old monastery. This perhaps is one of many stories being told to you, the four who gazed their eyes in the leather bound pages and wanted to know its secrets cursed themselves and perhaps all of us.
CUT TO:
TITLE:
“The Devil’s Purse”
“The Devil’s Purse”
A Screenplay by
Nicholas F. Gervasi
NARRATOR (V.O.)
Only the fires of hell could of bound that evil book.
FADE IN:
INT. FIRERY HELL
A lizard like sweaty hand meticulously writes page after page in a leather bound book. We never see this beings face that it is the Devil in demon form.
INTERCUT WITH MONTAGE:
SOUND FX: War Screams of death and those of victory. Battle noises, metal on metal. Horses galloping.
EXT. DESERT BATTLEGROUNDS - DAY
CLOSE-UPS:
Helmeted Asian, Dark-skinned, Arab, Pale white bearded ones.
CUT TO:
INT. DESERT TENT - NIGHT
A group huddles and laughs in armor staring at the floor of a tent at the book. We see their faces as they think they have it made and celebrate.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
The purse came down through the ages… passing through the blood soaked hands of barbarians, kings and queens, warlords; men and women with an unquenchable thirst for greed… slowly but surely it never remained in any kingdom for any long length of time.
CUT TO:
EXT. DESERT TENT - NIGHT
The tent is burned down and men fall out of it screaming and moaning in agony. A new tribe of men pick up the book from the sand and take it with them.
SFX: DEMONIC LAUGHTER
CUT TO:
CLOSE-UP:
Those lizard like hands rubbing together.
CUT TO:
EXT. BEACH - DAY
A beach filled with corpses, CAMERA PANS ALONG sand of them. There is a group of women and children in chains being led over the dead bodies of their fallen sons and husbands.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
As the devil laughed in hell cities and civilizations fell, hearts and minds were corrupted, and the evil stench of the slave trade permeated the four winds.
CUT TO:
EXT. DOCK - DAY
A man whipping his leather whip at slaves holds a copy of the book as he boards the same group on a dock and boat headed for England.
INT. BOAT AT SEA - DAY
The captain in his cabin filled with riches drinks wine and is rubbed by two slave girls. A slave boy creeps outside with a knife rushes in and the two girls rush out. The ship tosses and turns in the ocean.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
In it’s beginning-less history, no one read the fine print of the book, that four of an order were allowed to use its power for personal gain but if this was abused vengeance would be taken by the one who writes this.
CUT TO:
TITLE:
England The 1800’s.
EXT. ENGLISH SHORE – DAY
The broken remains of a ship. The book lays on the shore beside the dark waters of England. A wanderer dressed in rags, the poor Brisby of the story finds it under some boards and takes it with him.
(CONT’D) NARRATOR (V.O.)
Post-crusades England was ready when the book reappeared in an old monastery. This perhaps is one of many stories being told to you, the four who gazed their eyes in the leather bound pages and wanted to know its secrets cursed themselves and perhaps all of us.
CUT TO:
TITLE:
“The Devil’s Purse”
