finding the right title

"Boots" and "Honda Knot" fine as working titles, but neither is the one that sticks. 

Hilary Barrett:

"This is about natural beauty, like the beauty of a plant, whose form is the perfect, simple expression of its nature. It's also about the way people create images to communicate something of a person's or thing's inner nature."

end of this blog other than notepad

Just as semifinal informed this blog, so will this blog end today, other than as notepad, to inform the Finally Final blog I will begin next week.

scene 40

Previous.

EXT. PATIO - DAWN

Hunter in pajamas with mug of coffee, watching a roadrunner seeming to be looking back at him from the rock wall. It finally scurries away. Hunter swallows the last sip, heads to the door to the kitchen.

INT. KITCHEN

Hunter enters, sets mug on counter, gets tomatoes, mushrooms, onion, spinach, cheese and eggs from refrigerator, puts them on center island, stops, surprised when he hears a CAT'S MEOW. He steps into hallway.

INT. HALLWAY

Hunter stares down the hall at the open door to the guest room from which another MEOW comes. He walks slowly to the open door, is startled when a CAT runs out and past him down the hall and disappears through the cat door in the door to the garage. He turns back to the guest room, looks in from the doorway.

INT GUEST ROOM

Hunter in the doorway stares at Tom under the covers in bed, still, eyes closed, his arms crossed at wrists, hands on his chest.

HUNTER: Tom. Tom.

He enters, moves desk chair to bedside, sits.

HUNTER (CONT.) Tom. Tom.

FAINT MEOW.

He holds a finger to Tom's nostrils, searches for pulse at wrist, then at carotid artery. He stares at Tom, finally stands, leaves into hall.

[41. CHLOE'S BEDROOM

Describe. Chloe sleeping. Hunter arrives in doorway, stares, finally enters, sits on edge of bed Chloe faces. FAINT MEOW.] 

scene 39

Previous.

EXT. CAMPFIRE - NIGHT

POV at modest CRACKLING FIRE ringed by rocks. TILT UP  to reveal across the fire a WORKING COWBOY whose face is obscured by the brim of his hat as he feeds twigs to the flame. His silver hair rests on his shoulders.An AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD at repose next to him.  

WHISPER OF RIVER, LOWING OF CATTLE and SNORT OF HORSES we can’t see in the dark sparkled by approximately sextillion stars and a quarter moon. We finally notice what seems the blinking eyes of an owl looking back at us from behind the cowboy, over a shoulder. 

A WOLF’S DISTANT HOWL alerts the dog and lifts the cowboy’s gaze from the fire. He’s Tom, silver beard and mustache, twinkle is his eyes and smile on his face. He looks to the sky and quickly gathering clouds that soon enough eclipse the moon ad stars then drop snowflakes that cover the fire and finally Tom as the last ember of the fire is extinguished.

BLACK for a moment before SUNRISE on the distant mountains we could not see behind where Tom had been. The sun ascends quickly on the snow-covered Big West High Country. Horse and dog tracks in the snow lead from the bare tree with the branch the great horned owl flies from without a sound, toward the cowboy, his black horse and the last few of a dozen head of cattle completing the crossing of the steaming river shallow over and around gravel bars.

After the last cow has completed the crossing, the cowboy turns his black horse to us, takes off his hat and waves it over his head before finally turning and continuing out of view.

ROOSTER CROW.

INT. HUNTER’S BEDROOM - DAWN

Describe. Time on clock.

Hunter wakes. ROOSTER CROW.  Sits up, silk pajamas. He speaks elements of dream into phone-record, slips into slippers, leaves into hall.  

40. INT. KITCHEN - MOMENT LATER

Hunter enters, starts coffee.

Begin Timeout

 

related.

Hilary Barrett:

"To still yourself is to come to rest in your own right place. It's not the opposite of motion, but of being pushed into motion by outside influences. Whether you move or stop is determined inwardly, by your sense of the nature of the time."

Final Beats 37 - Epilogue

19 - 36

37. Next morning. Hunter's dream.

38. Tom reveal, Hunter tells Chloe.

39. Wanda (with Daisy) gets Hunter's call.

40. Ruth gets Wanda's call.

41. Gil gets Ruth's call.

42. Hunter and Chloe watch paramedics leave.

43. Barb with Brian, Jan and John gets Hunter's call. Chloe coming home. 

44. Wanda and Daisy, Laramie airport. 

45. Sess and Claire, the news.

46. Hunter with Jackie. 

47. Chloe with Barb, Jan and John re Hunter's itinerary and Ruth.

48. Next morning. Hunter leaves in Tom's truck. 

48. Hunter crossing Pecos River with music on radio.

49. Wanda and Ruth, Hunter arrive.

50. That night. Hunter, Wanda and Ruth, table, wine, re Gil.

51. Hunter in Ruth's guest room, calls Chloe in her room. Tomorrow's plans. Hunter's laptop screensaver. "Journal" notes.

52. Hunter driving Hill Country road, Ruth in middle, Wanda window, arrive gate, enter.  

53. Gil on deck with boys. Truck engine before emerge from oak grove. Arrive and intros.

54. John, Jan, Barbara, Chloe on boat on Lake Nacimiento. Chloe to Kerrville when Hunter returns. 

55. Fort Park, ATVs, Hunter, Gil and the boys. The land, family, Vietnam. Re Bangkok photos. A deer, re hunting. Distant thunder.

56. Hunter, Ruth, Wanda porch, ice cream, rain, Hunter backstory.

57. Gil in den, the boys and Bangkok photos.

58. Next morning, Hunter leaves.

59. Hunter's guest room, sunset. Hunter enters, sets boot, racks hat, opens guest book to Tom's entry. Teardrop lands near the mark of same, closes guestbook, leaves.

60. Two weeks later. Doc 1.

Epilogue. Hawaii.