The Piano Lesson Page #7
- PG
- Year:
- 1995
- 95 min
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STEWART struggles up to the front to join BAINES, he speaks over the
top of HONE.
STEWART:
What's he say?
BAINES:
Someone died here. It's tapu.
STEWART:
But we came down this way
didn't we? I'm sure we did.
The MAORI leaders continue discussing.
0h Pitama eh.
HONE:
E Tarna heke atu ki ram - tiro
his atu.
Rapuhia mai he huarahi re!
(Go and look, find another
track eh!)
UNSUBTITLED:
TIPI:
raro na.
(Go easy there's a ghost down
there.)
SUBTITLED:
HOTU:
tans tutae i te tuatahi. (You
smell his sh*t first.)
UNSUBTITLED:
STEWART continues over the top of the MAORI discussion.
STEWART:
They want more money. They are
trying to make two days out of
it?
BAINES:
No, no they know another track
- to the side of this.
ADA and FLORA sit watching, out of breath. The bush is dense,
claustrophobic and exotic. One of the MAORI women sits close to ADA
apparently not looking at her- Slowly she draws the scarf that is in
ADA's lap into her own. Defiantly she puts it on.
Meanwhile another woman makes a very dignified attempt to wipe the
freckles from FLORA's face.
It is another day and STEWART'S hut, bleakly set amidst smoking stumps
is full of squeals, chasing and antics.
Sc 21 INT STEWART'S HUT DAY Sc 21
The reverend in frock coat has a wedding dress stuck part way up his
arms. It is not a normal wedding dress but a backless one used again
and again as a photographic prop. Stewart's AUNT MORAG and her
companion NESSIE are trying to pull it off.
AUNT MORAG:
Watch your feet!
NESSIE:
Watch your feet!
ADA and FLORA find the family fun frightening and have taken refuge in
the bedroom.
AUNT MORAG:
Careful! Watch his hand.
NESSIE:
Watch his hand
The REVEREND tickles his sister as she tries to get the sleeve off his
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