[Posted to the Hayao Miyazaki Discussion Group by Enrique Conty, 10/8/92] Subject: Angel's Egg Script Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:36:00 CDT Source: Hayao Miyazaki Discussion Group From: Enrique Conty Here it is, Mitch. Not that it will do you any good as far as understanding this film. :-) Share and Enjoy!!! ----------------------------------- cut here --------------------------- [WARRIOR watches the Eye sink into the waters.] ANGEL: Who... who are you? TITLE: Angel's Egg Directed by: Mamoru Oshii Character Designs by: Yoshitaka Amano Screenplay by: Mamoru Oshii [we see a day in the strange life of ANGEL] [WARRIOR gives Egg to ANGEL] W: Keep precious things inside you or you will lose them. W: What do you think is inside that egg? A: I can't tell you things like that... besides, I don't even know who you are. W: You have to break an egg if you are to know what's inside. A: Who are you?! [ANGEL runs away] A: Don't follow me! [later] A: The fish have come out. W: Fish? A: Even though they aren't anywhere, they chase after them. Even though there aren't any fish anywhere. [after the Fish hunt] A: Please... my egg... don't do anything to it... promise. [ANGEL leads WARRIOR into a building] A: This way. [In front of a stylized basrelief of a Tree.] W: I've seen a tree like this somewhere... when was it? So long ago that I've forgotten... under a sky where the clouds made sounds as they moved. The black horizon swelled and from it grew a huge tree. It sucked the life from the ground and its pulsing branches reached up, as if to grasp something... the giant bird sleeping within an egg. A: What happened to the bird? Where is it? W: He's still there, still dreaming. A: Dreaming? What kind of dream does the bird dream? W: What's in the egg? You still cannot tell me? [ANGEL leads WARRIOR up a staircase lined with Water bottles] W: Since when have you been here? As many days as there are bottles? W: I too have forgotten where I'm from... Maybe I didn't know from the beginning where I am going. A: Will you be going away? [WARRIOR starts quoting] W: "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. I will send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground. And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. On that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The ark floated on the face of the waters, and all flesh died that moved upon the earth. Birds, cattle, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm upon the earth, and every man. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark. Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. Then he waited another seven days, and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him any more." W: Where did the bird land? Or maybe it weakened and was swallowed by the waters, no one could know. So the people waited for her return, and waited and grew tired of waiting. They forgot they had released the bird, even forgot there was a bird and a world sunken under water. They forgot where they had come from, how long they had been there, and where they were going so long ago that the animals have turned to stone. The bird I saw, I can't even remember where or when, it was so long ago. Perhaps it was a dream. Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists and it is only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. A: It exists. It's here. [ANGEL leads WARRIOR around] A: It's here. It's here. [WARRIOR encounters the fossilized Bird] A: I found it, it's already turned to stone, it's in here. I'm going to hatch it and put it back. It's the bird I found. W: I know that. I thought so. [ANGEL is listening to the Egg] W: Can you hear something? A: I can hear it. The sound of soft breathing. W: That's your breathing. A: I can hear the sound of wings. It must be dreaming of flying in the sky. W: That's just the sound of the wind outside. [ANGEL talks to the Egg] A: Very soon... right now you're in here dreaming but soon I will show you... very soon... so you must stay here now. It doesn't rain here... where it's warm. [WARRIOR puts ANGEL in Bed] A: Who are you? W: Who are you? [rest of movie, climax, and conclusion] E n r i q u e C o n t y jester@ihlpl.att.com ----------------------------------- cut here ---------------------------- Subject: Angel's egg X-Topic: Entry #2351 of LISTS.NAUSICAA Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:48:00 CDT Reply-To: Hayao Miyazaki Discussion Group From: "(Bryan C. Wilkinson)" Uh, Conty, don't you think you should give credit to Sue and maybe the NSA, since that's who you owe this script to...? --bry [Note: NSA is the old animation group at Johns Hopkins, long since disbanded...]