HATHOR - SAMPLE OF SCREENPLAY

HATHOR

-Marilyn Monroe

EXT. ABYDOS - THE ROYAL DOMICIL – DAY

A baby girl lies in a basinet she is all smiles with a round joyous face looking up to the sky she kicks in her bassinet little fists going as she enjoys the outdoor air beneath some palm trees. It is Hathor born to the Egyptian Kingdom smiling little face seen for the first time.

EXT. DENDERA THE COURTYARD – DAY

Hathor is grown is in her early twenties she is sitting across from her husband Horus the Elder in Dendera a city they built. They are a very tall race of forty feet so their space time of processing of consciousness is measured and functioning to scale as slower and much deeper appearing. They linger longer on moments of observation than today’s smaller humanity we all became for now the race is smaller when once it was very great and tall all over the Earth. The two lovers are soul mates and sit in wonder of each other. A ladybug is crawling over her cheek she is unaware Horus fixates on it.

HORUS

A large expedition is occurring over great lands.

HATHOR

Really?  Where is it?

He begins to laugh a deep robust voice that echoes through the courtyard.

HORUS

I cannot tell you or I would disturb it yet it is already likely exhausted for the great incline it is climbing is truly arduous.

Hathor squints her eyes and looks into his intently.

HATHOR

What forever do you mean?  Is it the eyes of the great falcon you read through then?

Horus begins to laugh again throwing his head back. Hathor is further perplexed.  He gently reaches to her cheek and puts the lady bug onto his finger.

HORUS

And here it is the exhausted traveler!

The lady bug sits on is finger and flies away.

HATHOR

Oh my stars!!!  How silly I am truly!

She smiles a dazzling smile and laughs a hearty laugh at the undetected ladybug.

She embraces him as these huge powerful gods giggle together and sit like children peering into each other’s eyes.

Wondrous are your eyes they see all things around us so thoroughly!

HORUS

Yours too. 

He gently touches her face traces her lips and kisses her passionately.

A lightning bolt clashes above them moist air forms.

They draw apart she has wet eyes.  She looks around at the weather change.

No!  I want to hunt tomorrow!! Not rain!

HATHOR

Yes!  Yes rain for as my love flows through to my face wetting everything so is it above as below for you my beloved whether you like it or not!

HORUS

Really truly I am so deeply moved perhaps a mudslide shall join the fun!

HATHOR

No!  Do not speak of such humor my love for it shall truly form!

She covers his mouth and he giggles.

HORUS

Dinner preparations are being made we are low on meats caught by my hand we shall have hunting this week lady or I’m fearing our dinner will not be the same.

HATHOR

Come on let’s go inside we’re going to get wet!

Rain gently falls as they get up hold hands and walk into their temple Domicile place together smiling with high energy to be alive.

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INT. THE ROYAL DOMICILE – DAY

Hathor and Horus dine alone on fowl in their smaller dining area.

HATHOR

You were gone for two days.

HORUS

Yes I was scouting.

HATHOR

Yes and what did you find?

HORUS

The oceans far far away.

HATHOR

The oceans?!

HORUS

I flew and there it was the great ocean and I lingered there and a bolt of lightning surged over it.

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EXT. THE OCEAN – DAY

Beneath dark clouds a gale is gathering and the waves are becoming furious beneath a storm.

HORUS (V.O. OFF CAMERA)

Then rain began from clouds forming a storm great waves.  Any sea faring vessel would have been in trouble so large was the gale.

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INT. THE ROYAL DOMICILE – DAY

Horus and Hathor dine over foul.

HATHOR

So you flew far far away like the great hawk.

HORUS

Yes.  Bad storm.

HATHOR

Can you recall it?

HORUS

Yes why you know I can!

He looks straight ahead out the window to the outside flashes his eyes and lighting fires through the sky again as it rains.

HATHOR

Do you remember when it was dark upon our land and we only had torches?

HORUS

Yes! The smell of burning oil was through the temples of old. 

HATHOR

Yes and we harnesses the power of the light wired it and now we have inner illumination in our structures!

HORUS

Yes for what is within is now without we had inner illumination of the power of our minds making manifest the illumination of our domiciles and city!

HATHOR

Yes! There is the initiation chamber to create it to harness the light to build it to wire it! 

HORUS

Good parties we’ve had inviting friends to learn this science.

HATHOR

Yes my mother said you have a face of such light it will illuminate cities one day!

HORUS

Is that why you hide it with the mask of the beast of burden?

HATHOR

Well it is to show to conquer the laziness of the mind who says it is not possible I don’t know how and slides onto the floor to sleep drunk with a good meal and wine and nothing new.  Then the underworld begins to creep upon such an entity. It begins to place time into the heart the brain; the soul is the necromancer who comes for its body to lower it to the tomb.

HORUS

I’m glad we found it and averted the death of ignorance!

HATHOR

Yes our friends they too in faraway lands may take this initiation and have the cities lit up the great cities of light are thusly born.

HORUS

I shall bring more with the great eyes of the falcon I wear as the great God Horus!

HATHOR

And so shall I!

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EXT. THE LUSH FORESTS – DAY

Anubis stalks through the lush forests where the royal family and its men hunt.  One of the staff from hunting group is missing.  He sees blood touches the ground and looks at it he keeps going and finds Heronhet lying face down in the trail with his head and neck mauled a disgruntled cheetah is sitting licking its paws.  He turns over the dead hunter his eyes are missing he looks at the cheetah which looks away from him in guilt.  He looks into his bag and the bag is torn the wild boar hunted taken out and consumed with blood all over it and a few tufts of fur left.  He drags the body away the cheetah growls behind him.  He slowly turns drops the body and swiftly pounces on the animal he turns it over on his back and 

grasps its neck he looks into its eyes tracing it he reads it.

ANUBIS

I see into you you ferocious creature we do not tame you as well as the lions.  Then you lurk to be fed by men you attack.  No move.

He twists its neck off camera and gets up off the life less animal.  He goes back to the body and carries it onto the anti - gravity cart he has brought to haul it away for its fur.

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INT. THE BURIAL CHAMBER – NIGHT

Loud, intense music plays as lights glow in the burial chamber of Dendera Horus is with Anubis the body of the hunter is on a slab.  They prepare the burial rites with canopic jars.  Anubis slices open the body to remove the organs to deep beat of rock music.  Horus looks away.  The music fades.

HORUS

I can never get used to this.

ANUBIS

It is wise not to lest you live crazed in the underworld in fear of more deaths.  I fight with this demon on occasion.

Anubis begins to remove the organs and places them in canopic jars.

HORUS

How grisly a spectacle.  Just yesterday he was walking the cats for exercise!

ANUBIS

Yes the gods don’t realize how carelessness is consuming a life in seconds that is an immortal life in its intent. It is as if something is lurking from the underworld ready to steal a life to smother it out in a terrible accident. Does the cosmos miss its child so terribly it places this into the fabric of the Earth?

 

HORUS

Surely not!  For it is love we came from for life to be lit up shone powerfully! Surely there is no demise in a scheme against us!

ANUBIS

Really?  Then why does it seem something is lurking in the darkness of the mind or heart that is like a quiet exterminator waiting to take a life for this force exists Horus you cannot be ignorant of it.

HORUS

Well we are happy why disturb us?

ANUBIS

Yes why?  So you are no longer happy so you cry so you wail at the loss of life! 

HORUS

Maybe…

Anubis looks at him long.

ANUBIS

Maybe what?

HORUS

Maybe it is those who do not see the flowers the trees the scent of it all a child’s rosy cheek sucking at the breast, food prepared that then an entity takes; the life that consumes jealously in its fatigue not to notice any more.

ANUBIS

Some are more sinister some judge that you do not do it because you cry over a fight with a mate and have a knife at your throat that fast not seeing you were in the previous scene just moments before you spoke of. Those are the crazed men who are confused from imbalance and crave the underworld as their justice to revenge upon this land.

Anubis continues to place the organs in canopic jars.

HORUS

What profound words.

ANUBIS

Most I found on our lands who attempted murder over a fight or killed were confused in their homes. Mostly servants who were finding the kingdom too much work a blight.  Who went after those who enjoyed their work. Then took a knife to themselves.

HORUS

Yes very confusing we give them everything all men are rich men in our kingdom!

ANUBIS

It is sometimes the lust of passion of the drink of carelessness.

HORUS

And do what deny them wine?

ANUBIS

No of course not. It’s just it plagues us the deaths if we are not careful.

HORUS

Of course.

ANUBIS

Heronhet the heart that once beat is no more the eyes that saw put out the stomach that consumed the fine foods quenched suddenly by force.  You are no more to us as living divine force upon the land you have perished and been taken may this burial bright you out of the suffering of the underworld to a pace of rest of peace to allow you to pass into the afterlife triumphant to be set free till you return to us again to a new mother and father!

He begins to sew up the body cavity with a large needle and thread.

Prepare the fluid of flowers and salts for the body to be purified.

Horus grabs the bowl tosses flowers into it and a handful of salt into the liquid he stirs it with a large spoon. Anubis brings the cloth to wrap the body into the mummified state.