Black Screen.
Drumbeat.
IN A WORLD
(Shot of a field of flowers. A jackbooted foot tramples a
poppy)
Drumbeat.
UNDER THE SHADOW
(A door opens on a cowering family,
women in headscarves cower
as a shadow falls over them)
women in headscarves cower
as a shadow falls over them)
Drumbeat.
OF TYRANNY
(A battalion of German soldiers march across a village
square)
Drumbeat.
ONE MAN
(Close shot of the hands of a man, well-upholstered,
in a tweed blazer and cable-knit sweater)
in a tweed blazer and cable-knit sweater)
WILL NOT
(He's loading a gun)
GO GENTLE
(Pan up to his face. It's Dylan Thomas.)
Drumbeat.
Fade to black.
A hand lights a match.
A voice:
The force that lights the green fuse drives the flower...
The match lights a fuse. It burns for a moment.
Cut to a shot of the Reichstag exploding.
Stirring, urgent orchestral soundtrack.
A jeep tears across a city street, Caitlin driving,
Dylan Thomas standing in the back
firing two automatic pistols at the pursuing Wehrmacht.
Dylan Thomas standing in the back
firing two automatic pistols at the pursuing Wehrmacht.
Dylan Thomas stands on a hill, which has lots of ferns on
it.
Dylan Thomas reaches desperately
over the edge of a roof, hand reaching out:
over the edge of a roof, hand reaching out:
“CAITLIIIIIN!”
A small coffin is lowered into a grave.
Someone says, “She died in a fire.”
Dylan Thomas walks away from the scene,
arms folded, shaking his head.
Someone says, “She died in a fire.”
Dylan Thomas walks away from the scene,
arms folded, shaking his head.
Dylan Thomas swings from a swastika banner
in a crowded hall full of Nazi soldiers,
bullets flying around him.
in a crowded hall full of Nazi soldiers,
bullets flying around him.
An SS Colonel and Dylan Thomas
trade blows on a blazing rooftop...
the Colonel says, “You're not so good,”
trade blows on a blazing rooftop...
the Colonel says, “You're not so good,”
“We are none of us wholly bad bad or wholly good...
but you're a bastard,”
but you're a bastard,”
He socks the baddie hard.
Orchestral flourish.
Explosion.
Drumbeat.
THIS YEAR
Drumbeat.
RAGE... AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT.
Black. Music ends.
DYLAN THOMAS AT WAR
COMING SOON.
