Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

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73. COMMANDER (CONT’D) No paramilitary displays. You’re not going to bury this man as a soldier, McVeigh. Not on my watch. GERRY I don’t see any sign of a military display. COMMANDER That’s a colour party. GERRY It’s a few grieving men. COMMANDER Split them up and have others carry it, or this is going nowhere. GERRY stares at the man. He oozes a visceral, tribal hatred, like those around him. The funeral of an IRA Volunteer killed by crown forces is a moment of huge emotional resonance. But a confrontation would upset the family. Reluctantly, he nods to the men to indicate he concedes. INT. CHURCH - A FEW MINUTES LATER. The coffin has reached the church, but there is no respite. GERRY MCVEIGH sits close to the front of the mourners with COLLETTE beside him. PRIEST (from the pulpit) Whatever message we may wish to give to the massed ranks of the crown forces who besiege this church today, whatever hatred we may tell ourselves it is out right to harbour in our hearts, I must say this to the paramilitary leaders; why did you send this young man to his death? On GERRY as he tries to retain his composure. PRIEST (CONT’D) After so many years of bitterness, what do you hope to achieve with this daily litany of death? Peace, as Yeats once told us, may come dropping slow, but come it must...
74. We’re CLOSE again on Gerry. He didn’t come here to be lectured by a priest... INT. CONNOLLY HOUSE - A REPUBLICAN ‘COMMUNITY CENTRE’ - AN HOUR LATER. The IRA is using the funeral as cover for a meeting. Perhaps two hundred people are gathered, mostly men. We pick out GERRY, PADDY and COLLETTE in the crowd. The CHIEF OF STAFF is on his feet. CHIEF OF STAFF If we move now, if we’re bold, we can isolate the Brits once and for all. ANGLE on an IRA hardliner called FOX. He’s another farmer, head of the East Tyrone Brigade. FOX (from the front row) How’s that, Seamus? CHIEF OF STAFF We’ve got Dublin on board. Washington stands ready. But they need something from us. A moment’s silence. The audience is highly sceptical. ON COLLETTE as she checks out the faces. ON KEVIN MULGREW. He’s watching her. ON GERRY. The men around him await his intervention. No doubt he’s the rebel leader. GERRY (slowly, like this is hard to credit) You want a ceasefire now? CHIEF OF STAFF We’re not there yet, Gerry. GERRY But that’s what you want? CHIEF OF STAFF We have to test out-- GERRY What’s on the table?
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20. She nods. She stares out of the
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Page 25 and 26: 24. MULGREW. Who signed you up, Gin
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Page 37 and 38: 36. She breaks away, staggers. She
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Page 41 and 42: 40. MULGREW. We need to talk about
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Page 45 and 46: 44. MARK What is it, Mam? COLLETTE
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Page 95 and 96: 94. COLLETTE I don’t know... RYAN
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Page 107 and 108: 106. He takes out the pistol and pl
Page 109 and 110: 108. GERRY (CONT’D) Everything we
Page 111 and 112: 110. PADDY’S head sags. Collette.
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