Gandhi Page #3
- PG
- Year:
- 1982
- 191 min
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Gandhi's white shawl is stained with blood as he falls.
GANDHI:
Oh, God... oh, God...
Amid the screams and sounds of chaos we dissolve through to
KINGSWAY - NEW DELHI - EXTERIOR - DAY
Close shot. Soldier's feet moving in the slow step, half-
step, step of the requiem march...
Full shot. The huge funeral procession -- crowds such as
have never been seen on the screen massed along the route.
People everywhere, clinging to monuments, lamp standards,
trees -- and as the camera pulls back from the funeral cortege
it reveals more and more... and more. All are silent. We
only hear a strange, rhythmic shuffling, pierced by an
occasional wail of grief. We see the soldiers and sailors
lining the route, their hands locked together in one seemingly
endless chain. We see the two hundred men of the Army, Navy
and Air Force drawing the Army weapon-carrier that bears the
body of Gandhi.
And finally we see Gandhi lying on the weapon-carrier,
surrounded by flowers, a tiny figure in this ocean of grief
and reverence.
THE COMMENTATORS' ROSTRUM - KINGSWAY - NEW DELHI - EXTERIOR -
DAY:
Commentators from all over the world are covering the
ceremony. We concentrate on one, let us say the most
distinguished American broadcaster of the time, Edward R.
Murrow, who sits on the makeshift platform, a microphone
marked "CBS" before him, describing the procession as
technicians and staff move quietly around him.
MURROW:
(clipped, weighted)
...The object of this massive tribute
died as he had always lived -- a
private man without wealth, without
property, without official title or
office...
KINGSWAY - NEW DELHI - EXTERIOR - DAY
As the cortege continues on its way, we get shots of the
marching soldiers, of the faces of Sikhs, and Tamils, Anglo-
Indians, Moslems from the north, Marathas from the south,
blue-eyed Parsees, dark-skinned Keralans...
MURROW'S VOICE-OVER
Mahatma Gandhi was not a commander
of great armies nor ruler of vast
lands, he could boast no scientific
achievements, no artistic gift...
Yet men, governments and dignitaries
from all over the world have joined
hands today to pay homage to this
little brown man in the loincloth
who led his country to freedom...
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