Sunset Song
- R
- Year:
- 2015
- 135 min
- 237 Views
1
Say...
"Oo, oo, oo, butin."
Oo, oo, oo, butin.
No.
Put your mouths
as if you were about to whistle.
But don't do it.
Say...
"Oo, oo, oo, butin."
Oo, oo, oo, butin.
Mrs Hemans, is there one pupil who is in
any way proficient in the French language?
Chris Guthrie is one of my best...
especially in Latin.
Let her stand up.
Say...
"Oo, oo, oo, butin."
Oo, oo, oo, butin.
Oh.
I hope your Latin is as good.
Is your father really a socialist?
Yeah.
Chae says that all should be equal...
rich and poor, men and women.
He wants me to learn
so I'll be ready for the revolution.
And if it doesn't come?
Well, I'll train to be a doctor
and cut the bodies of the paupers.
You better take care
you don't die a pauper, Chris.
I'd hate to be standing there
with the scalpel in my hand
and looking into your queer dead face
and crying,
"But this is Chris Guthrie!"
Marget Strachan!
Oh, but Aberdeen?
Well, it's the best place for a scholar
and I'll be trained all the sooner.
Oh, Chrissie, Chrissie,
Men, women... what fools
There are lovely things in the world...
lovely that don't endure,
and the lovelier for that.
Wait till you find yourself in the arms
of your lad at the harvest time.
He'll stop joking,
and he'll take you like this.
There's not a body to see us! And hold you
like this, with his hands held so,
and kiss you like this.
Mwah!
"And when the First Reformation came,
some folk cried, 'Whiggam, '
and some cried, 'Rome, '
and some cried, 'The King.'
the Kinraddies were all for the Covenant.
But then it was an ill time
for the Scottish gentry,
for the poison of the French Revolution
came over the seas
and the new Laird of Kinraddie
became a Jacobin
and joined the Jacobin Club in Aberdeen."
Oh, there's no land like Aberdeen.
Or folks so fine that bide there.
Oh, Chris, my lass, there's more to life
than your books or studies.
There's the countryside your own...
you, its.
In the days when you're neither
bairn nor woman.
Peace, Jean, peace.
She'll do us credit.
Go on, Chris, read us more.
"And there at Aberdeen, he was
nearly killed in rioting for liberty,
and equality and fraternity."
Equality should begin at home.
Yes, she sat for her bursary...
and got it.
But two Chrisses there were...
that fought for her heart.
She hated the land
and the coarse speak of the folk.
And learning was brave and fine one day,
and the next she'd waken,
with the peewits crying
across the hills...
deep and deep,
crying in the heart of her.
And the smell of the earth in her face
almost made her cry...
for the beauty of it and the sweetness
of the Scottish land and skies.
And the next minute that passed from her
and she was English,
back to the English words,
For a while, for a while, till they slid
so smoothly from her throat.
She knew that they could never say
anything worth the saying at all.
Amo, amas.
I love a lass.
Clever enough to be a teacher.
Aye.
Clever enough.
Move over...
Jehovah.
If I ever hear you take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain again,
I'll libb you.
I'll libb you like a lamb.
I hate him.
Oh, Will.
I hate him.
Jean.
Four in a family's fine.
Fine?
There'll be no more.
We'll have what God in his mercy
sends to us, woman.
See you to that!
I hate him.
It was her hair.
Her bonny, bonny hair.
Man, it's a fair tough case!
I'll need your help!
You, get the doctor
an egg for his breakfast now.
Guthrie, man, do you hear me?
I'm not deaf!
She's far too old for that.
She shouldnae be having another baby.
It's him.
It's the beast.
But don't worry.
His friend Jehovah will see to it all.
Hot water, jugs of it.
Pour me a basin of water, Chris,
and put plenty of soap nearby it.
- Do you hear me?
- Aye, Doctor! Only, she's feared.
She'll have a damned sight more to fear
when she's having a bairn of her own!
Pour out that water, quick!
It's twins.
We'll need more rooms.
More rooms?
Are we joining the gentry, Jean?
Well...
we're to bide here, then?
Content yourself.
I'll find a place.
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
A-wandering through this world of woe
And there's no sickness, toil or danger
In that great world to which I go
- I'm going home to see my father
- John, stop!
Halt!
Get down, you brat!
We'd better loosen up at Portlethen
and not try the slug this night.
Damn it to hell, woman,
you think I'm made of silver?
I know we're not made of silver,
but we might all die of the night.
I'm only going over home
So that was how she came to Blawearie...
Oh, Kinraddie.
I'm going home to meet my mother
She said she'd meet me when I come
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home
God, you've stripped!
You'd make a fine lad, Chris.
Get out of there at once,
you shameful limmer!
Get your clothes on!
What can folks say if they see her
out here near naked?
If your neighbours haven't seen
a naked lass,
they must have fathered their own bairns
What's this I'm hearing about you
and some b*tch from Drumlithie?
Aye, she's not a virgin either!
Right.
I'm off to the mart at Laurencekirk.
No other soul must handle the gun
but Father.
Aye.
You and your guns.
What harm was in Will that he used it?
You'll come out to the barn with me.
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Sunset Song" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 Apr. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/sunset_song_19118>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In