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byRoselyne BoschREVISEDSeptember 23, 1991 FADE IN:CREDITS AND MUSIC OVER:INT. AUDIENCE ROOM - GRANADA - DAYWe start on a mans elegant slipper. He is seated in asplendid chair. Moving up the stocking leg, we pass thegarter of Castile, coming to rest on a pair of delicatehands. His fore finge
BACK TO SANCHEZ
SANCHEZ
(quietly)
... Into a monk...
ISABEL
(with a smile)
Yes. It would be a pity, wouldn't
it?
(turning to Sanchez)
Call him back!
EXT. STREET - EVENING
Teeming life. COLUMBUS pushing his way through crowds.
He is expressionless and distracted.
He looks around him, stops walking. And then,
unexpectedly, shouts.
COLUMBUS
YEEEEEEES!
All heads turn as if he were totally insane. He walks on
as if nothing happened.
INT. BEATRIX'S HOUSE - NIGHT
COLUMBUS is sitting at the kitchen table, by himself, with
a glass of wine. There is a movement behind him. BEATRIX
is standing at the foot of the stairs, in a night-shirt.
COLUMBUS turns and looks at her, almost sad.
COLUMBUS
She said yes.
BEATRIX
(moved)
Thank God...
She smiles. But he seems to be unable to share her
happiness.
COLUMBUS
If I ever come back, I swear I
will...
She crosses to him quickly, placing her hand gently on his
mouth.
BEATRIX
(softly)
I'm not asking you to swear to
anything.
COLUMBUS
I don't want you to wait for me.
BEATRIX
(smiling)
That's something you can't decide.
COLUMBUS kisses her.
INT. CORRIDOR - BEATRIX'S HOUSE - NIGHT
Strange, unearthly music... A flickering light in a dark
tunnel. FERNANDO, holding a candle in front of him, walks
slowly down the dark corridor.
Quietly opening a door, he walks into COLUMBUS' study.
INT. COLUMBUS' STUDY - NIGHT
CLOSE ON: A huge illustrated map of western Europe and
Asia. FERNANDO'S candle moves slowly across the Atlantic
Ocean, to the edge of the map. There, the illustrator's
imagination has created monsters: terrifying demons;
creatures half-human, half-animal.
Sitting at his desk, COLUMBUS is looking at the map.
FERNANDO (O.S.)
You can't go there!
Turning, COLUMBUS finds his son beside him.
COLUMBUS
Why not?
FERNANDO points at the monsters. He pulls the boy to him.
COLUMBUS
There aren't any monsters, Fernando.
The only monsters are in here...
(he taps his own
forehead)
Watch!
He takes a pen, and draws a smile on one of the terrible
monsters, transforming it at once. FERNANDO laughs
immediately.
FERNANDO
I want to go with you!
COLUMBUS
There'll be a time.
FERNANDO
You promise?
(Columbus nods his
head)
Do you swear on St. Christopher...?
FERNANDO pulls the chain with the St. Christopher medal
from under COLUMBUS' shirt.
FERNANDO
Do you swear on all the Holy Saints
in heaven?
COLUMBUS
(laughing)
Yes... Yes, I do... On all of them!
And he hugs his SON tightly.
EXT. HILLSIDE AND GATE - PRE-DAWN
A luminous procession passes through a Moorish stone gate,
down to the harbor. We see the faces of the SAILORS and
their FAMILIES -- COLUMBUS, PINZON AMONGST THEM -- We
sense the fervor and apprehension of the departure. The
procession is lead by MARCHENA and four young NOVICES
carrying the Madonna. All hold long, burning tapers,
saying the rosary. A SAILOR pushes through the crowd, and
kisses the Madonna's feet.
EXT. PALOS HARBOR - DAWN
Hundreds of candles flicker in the pre-dawn light, held by
the FAMILIES and FRIENDS of the SAILORS.
The SANTA MARIA the PINTA and the NINA nestle against the
quays
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