[Posted to the Hayao Miyazaki Discussion Group by Enrique Conty, 10/8/92]
 
Subject:      Angel's Egg Script <SAVE THIS!!>
Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:36:00 CDT
Source:       Hayao Miyazaki Discussion Group <NAUSICAA@BROWNVM.BITNET>
From:         Enrique Conty <jester@IHLPL.ATT.COM>
 
Here it is, Mitch.  Not that it will do you any good as far as
understanding this film.  :-)
 
Share and Enjoy!!!
 
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[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
 
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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 <NAUSICAA@BROWNVM.BITNET>
From:         "(Bryan C. Wilkinson)" <mbaron@CHINET.CHI.IL.US>
 
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...]
