Transcription of Brooklyn Yellow Script - BBC
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BROOKLYNbyNick HornbyYELLOW SCRIPT24th April 2014 Adapted from the novel by Colm Toibin(c) 2014 Finola Dwyer & Amanda PoseyWildgaze Films Ltd 53 Greek StreetLondon W1D 3 DRT: +44 (0)20 7734 7065F: +44 (0)20 7734 4250E: STREET. PRE-DAWN11A quiet, working-class residential street in Ireland, early 1950s. It s morning, but it s still dark. One of the front doors opens, and out slips EILIS - early twenties, open-faced pretty without knowing it. She closes the door quietly behind her and walks quickly up the street. There is a hissed call from behind her. She turns, and her sister ROSE - thirty, attractive, slender, pale - is running after her, in nightdress and bare feet, holding out a piece of bread and jam. Eilis takes it from her, makes a face to show how grateful she (mouthing)Go back to nods, tiptoes back to the CHURCH. DAY22It s the early mass, and the church has only a smattering of worshippers. Eilis is kneeling and praying with two other women: MISS KELLY, fifties, thick glasses, a constant look of disapproval on her face, and MARY, the same age as Eilis, but large and simple-minded - her mouth is usually open, indicating her lack of comprehension at more or less any given moment.
MISS KELLY (scornful) Whose idea was that? EILIS Father Flood in New York arranged it. Rose used to play golf with him, when he lived here. He …
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