The Power of One Page #3
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1992
- 127 min
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8.
Several boys sneak up in the dark. The CHICKEN begins
to CHATTER. The six-year-old wakes, a shoe in hand
ready to throw. The shadows scatter. The Boy gives the
chicken a few grains of corn and an affectionate scratch
behind the ear, and goes back to sleep.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
He was my best and only friend.
CUT TO:
14 INT. SCHOOL 14
Boys and faculty running through the halls excitedly,
showing newspapers with pictures of Hitler and
Chamberlain on the front. Posters and slogans with
swastikas are slapped up on walls. Some boys mimic
"heiling" to each other.
YOUNG MAN (V.O.)
I'm sure in time a status quo
would have been achieved between
me and my schoolmates were it not
for the cataclysmic events
occurring in that faraway place
none of us had ever seen.
(beat)
Two montjhs after I arrived at
the school World War II broke out
in Europe. Hitler had vowed to
crush the British Empire. The
Boers sharpened their swords in
anticipation.
The six-year-old comes back to his bed in the dorm to
find a swastika carved into it.
CUT TO:
The six-year-old sleeps fitfully. There is a MUFFLED
SQUAWK. He wakes. A blanket is thrown over his head.
CUT TO:
16 INT. DARKENED BASEMENT ROOM 16
The Boy is dumped on the floor, the blanket removed. His
eyes open in horror. The room is lit by torches.
Shadows dance fearfully off two dozen boys with swastika
armbands and leather pistol rigs without pistols strapped
to their sides. In front of him on a platform Jaapie
Botha stands, his shirtsleeves rolled to the shoulder,
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as another student painfully tattoo-scars his arm with
a swastika, using a knife and blue dye. Seeing the sixyear-
old, Jaapie turns his attention to him and
addresses him in Afrikaans.
JAAPIE:
God has sent Hitler to deliver us
from the English bastards who stole
our country and killed our people.
Heil Hitler!
ALL:
Heil Hitler!
JAAPIE:
We will swear a blood oath. When
Hitler comes we'll rise up and
kill the Verdomde Rooineks.
ALL:
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