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One Night The Moon: Script Extract |
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The following is an extract from the final shooting script of One Night The Moon © 2001 MusicArtsDance films Pty Ltd. The credits for this scene are: writers John Romeril and Rachel Perkins; lyrics Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly (Publishing Administered by Mushroom Music); music Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly. It is published here with the kind permission of the film's producers.
The following scene takes place the morning after the Child (Memphis Kelly) has gone missing. A search party is being put together at the Father's (Paul Kelly) property. He bluntly refuses the inclusion of an Aboriginal man, Albert (Kelton Pell), to partake in the search despite the invaluable tool of 'tracking' that he brings. At this point, the scene gives way to the song “This Land is Mine/This Land is Me”, which melodically and thematically positions the Father and Albert as opposite counterpoints to each other. It's a highlight of the film.
FADE UP FROM BLACK The sun rises over the Flinders. The roadside is a scatter of parked cars and trucks. Here cooking fires are being tended. Men are washing themselves, checking equipment and supplies. One crawls from where he slept, under a truck. Others emerge from tents and swags. The extent of the scene is sampled. It's like an overnight temporary city has sprung up. A fifty strong search party of VOLUNTEERS has gathered at the farm. The MOTHER is pouring tea from a big pot for VOLUNTEERS from the verandah. The SEARGENT approaches her. The MOTHER pours him tea. He and the MOTHER watch as the FATHER arrives and dismounts from his horse.
The FATHER walks past her to the SEARGENT.
The SERGEANT takes in the surrounding countryside. A car is approaching in the distance.
They watch as the car pulls up and ALBERT and ALLMAN get out of the car. ALBERT is now also in police uniform. The MOTHER goes to the FATHER. ALBERT waits a moment, notes the open windows of the house. He looks up toward the sun, just rising over the mountain range and tilts down from that toward the house where he finally notices the parents talking together, obviously about him. ALBERT and ALLMAN walk toward the house. The MOTHER looks apprehensively at the FATHER as he watches them approach. The SEARGENT walks down the stairs to meet them.
ALBERT nods up at the FATHER standing up on the veranda, but the FATHER does not respond. ALLMAN notes their cold response.
The FATHER gives the MOTHER a look. She drops the kettle and goes inside
The FATHER waits for someone to question his authority.no one does.
The FATHER walks down the steps past ALBERT and ALLMAN. The SEARGENT turns to ALBERT.
The SEARGENT cuts him off.
The FATHER standing with the assembled VOLUNTEERS calls out to the SEARGENT.
He is staring hard at the SEARGENT, but shifts his focus to ALLMAN.
The SERGEANT orders the men into a line. ALBERT who is left standing at the garden fence takes all this activity in. He looks toward the FATHER.
MUSIC: This Land Is Mine
The VOLUNTEERS form up in a rough semi-circle. The FATHER sensing ALBERT's gaze, turns his back on him to look out across the paddock. He finishes saddling his horse.
The FATHER mounts his horse.
Meanwhile ALBERT has been grabbing his swag and now walks off in the other direction.
He looks back at the search party.
The MOTHER watches both men.
ALBERT walks off down the road.
The TRACKER looks back toward the house and sees the MOTHER at the window looking out at him.
MUSIC: This Land Is Mine ends
One Night The Moon
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