The Kingdom of Heaven Page #4
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- 1991
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him, snowflakes in his
lashes.)
I think that you conceive yourself
without sin. That is a sin.
BALIAN gets up and walks away through the snow. The PRIEST
stares after him.
INT. THE GREAT HALL OF THE CASTLE. NIGHT
MUSIC. The travellers from the Holy Land, employing their
knives, are dining with GODFREY’S BROTHER (who stayed a poor
provincial lord while his brother became a baron in the Holy
Land). GODFREY is self-absorbed, thinking, eating
reflectively. The HOSPITALER carries the conversation with
the GODFREY’S BROTHER and the brother’s mendacious, cynical,
and worthless SON (Godfrey’s nephew), who is drinking as if
his guts are on fire.
GODFREY’S BROTHER
And what of Jerusalem?
HOSPITALER:
(suavely)
In peril, my lord. As always.
(CONTINUED)
9.
CONTINUED:
GODFREY’S BROTHER
We have stood there against the
Saracens for almost a hundred year.
HOSPITALER:
The Saracens, as you call them,
have now unified in Egypt, Syria
and all Arabia.
(a beat)
The Saracens have someone...
(another suave beat)
new.
GODFREY’S NEPHEW
(follows the Crusades like
sports)
Saladin. Their king.
HOSPITALER:
Yes. Salah Ad-din.
GODFREY’S BROTHER
(belches)
Gibberish.
The Hospitaler smiles mildly, holds up an ornate silver wine
cup, and to change the subject:
HOSPITALER:
Very fine.
GODFREY’S NEPHEW
(picking a fight he
couldn’t win)
Do you mean, Hospitaler, that it is
very fine for such a poor place?
ODO, the German knight, looks up at, with relish, a potential
enemy.
Odo loves an enemy. The HOSPITALER is suave.
HOSPITALER:
I mean that it is very fine.
GODFREY’S BROTHER
And yet you do not drink. A knight
should be a knight, a monk a monk,
not both at once, that is what I
say.
(The Hospitaler mildly
ignores this.)
But I am old-fashioned.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
10.
CONTINUED:
(2)GODFREY’S BROTHER (CONT'D)
As for the cup, I have an
artificer. A blacksmith. Or did
have...
GODFREY:
(distracted, staring away)
Which son of the blacksmith of my
time is the blacksmith now?
GODFREY’S BROTHER
The eldest. Balian.
resumes eating)
His child died. His wife fell into
a melancholy. She would not listen
to reason. She killed herself.
(disinterested, worldly)
It occurs. But what’s that to you?
GODFREY:
A private matter.
GODFREY’S BROTHER is thick and incurious. Eats. GODFREY,
drinking wine, moves to a window and parts the ragged
hangings to look, with thoughtful sadness, down into the
valley.
GODFREY’S BROTHER
(drunk, and disguising
bitterness)
It is six and twenty years since my
brother took the cross, and now he
returns an actual Baron of the
Kingdom of Jerusalem. How is that
for the lot of a younger brother?
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