The Lost Gospels of Mariam and Judas

Harry Lee

Description

This screenplay adaptation, formatted to the correct Hollywood feature-film standard, is a strikingly visual new interpretation of the story of Yeshua, who is better known as Jesus Christ. The story shown in the Scenes, Action, Shots, Character, and Dialogue, is a secular and logical explanation for the mystery that has puzzled humanity for the last two-thousand years. Who really was the Galilean man named Yeshua, and how did he become the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? Could this new version of the canonical gospels be a rational, non-supernatural, answer to that mystery?

Sujets

• Historical
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 26 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665569804
• Langue: English

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The Lost Gospels of Mariam and Judas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Screenplay by,
Harry Lee
 
Based on the original work, compiled by,
Reverend William Williams
 
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Published by AuthorHouse  09/21/2022
 
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6981-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-6980-4 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022916164
 
 
 
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FAD E IN:
1 EXT . DESERT - DAY
The weather is hot, the sun intense. Three people are walking up a hill. SIMON ISCARIOT is fortyish, a stone mason, with dark hair, his skin deeply tanned from outdoors work, he is a very physical man who other men dare not cross. His son, JUDAS ISCARIOT, is fifteen years old, a construction apprentice who is a younger version of his father, except Judas has ruddy skin and carrot-colored hair. Judas leads a donkey. The wife and mother, CYBOREA, is mid-thirties but already aged by the primitive life they lead, her hair is auburn with red highlights. They each carry a bundle of belongings, the donkey also carries a load tied to the crosstree on its back. At the top of the hill the man stops. In a moment the boy and woman walk up and stand beside him. Simon points at something ahead of them.
SIMON ISCA RIOT
Naza reth.
In the distance is a village. Cyborea puts her fingers to her forehead, and closes her eyes.
CYB OREA
Bless us, Adonia, and let us find peace and work and lodging in Naza reth.
The man, boy, woman and donkey begin walking down the hill.
2 EXT. DESERT - BOTTOM OF HILL - DAY
FOUR BOYS are gathered in a group. THREE OF THE BOYS are taunting and provoking the FOURTH BOY. The man, boy, woman and donkey stop a short distance away, but are not noticed by the four boys, and they can hear what the four boys are saying. All of the boys are teenagers, and the OLDEST of the three boys is trying to take a hunting sling away from the fourth boy. That fourth boy is YESHUA, who has brown hair and blue eyes in contrast to the dark hair and dark eyes of the other boys.
OLDEST OF THREE BOYS
You cannot hunt. Give me the sling. Run home to s tada.
The fourth boy punches that boy in the face.
FOURTH BOY
Shut your mouth or I will kill you!
All three of the boys attack the fourth boy. The fourth boy is knocked to the ground. Two of the attackers hold him down while the oldest boy kicks the fourth boy.
JUDAS ISCA RIOT
Father, it is not fair. There are three of them to his one.
SIMON ISCA RIOT
It is not our con cern.
JUDAS ISCA RIOT
But father, you are always telling me we should help those in need. I want to help him.
SIMON ISCA RIOT
We do not know the rights and wrongs of this affair. Perhaps he deserves the bea ting.
JUDAS ISCA RIOT
Then let them beat him one at a time, not all at once. Mother, should we let three beat one?
CYB OREA
What would yo u do?
JUDAS ISCA RIOT
I will fight one so he has only two to f ight.
CYB OREA
(a wearied v oice)
He is the son of his fa ther.
SIMON ISCA RIOT
(la ughs)
Go then.
Judas selects a slender but stout stick of firewood from a bundle on the donkey’s load. Judas runs to the fight, and in a surprise at tack...
1) Judas swings the stick and hits the kicking boy across the back of his head and shoulders. That boy falls hard to the gr ound...
2) the other two attackers look around in shock giving the boy being held down a chance to jerk an arm free...
3) and the boy grabs a fist-sized rock from the ground and smashes it into the face of one of the remaining two attackers, that boy yells and falls away...
4) the fourth boy leaps to his feet and goes for the third attacker, punching him viciously, and quickly defeats him...
5) the fourth boy turns to look at the boy who assisted him. The fourth boy is breathing hard, spitting out blood from a blow to his face.
FOURTH BOY
Many thanks for your help. My name is Yeshua. I am called Yeshua the Naza rene.
JUDAS ISCA RIOT
I am Judas. The son of Simon Isca riot.
Simon Iscariot and Cyborea have walked up and are now standing right t here.
SIMON ISCA RIOT
Yeshua? Is Mary Salome your mother? Is her mother, Anne, your grandmo ther?
YE SHUA
Yes.
SIMON ISCA RIOT
You will not remember me. I last saw you when you were just born, in Bet Lehem, fifteen years ago it was, before Yosef took all your family to the land of the pharaohs. Anne is my sister. So I am your great-uncle. This is your aunt, Cyborea, and Judas is your cousin. You and Judas both fight your adversaries like demons! You two will get along famo usly.
CYB OREA
How is Mary Salome, and Yosef, are they well?
YE SHUA
Mother is fine. And Yosef. They will be happy to see you.
SIMON ISCA RIOT
When did you return from E gypt?
YE SHUA
It was two years ago. We have lived in Nazareth since then.
3 SUPER: “10 YEARS LATER - THE TOWN OF ZIPP ORAH”
4 EXT. MARKETPLACE - DAY
In a stone-paved open area, right inside the city walls, shoppers bargain with merchants at street stalls. There is a marked difference in the manner of dress between the people in the market square. Some dress in more colorful and expensive clothing, THE SADDUCEES, who operate the shops and stalls. The majority of the people are shoppers who wear plain, unadorned clothing, THE PHARI SEES.
Some Pharisees also have practical items for sale such as vegetables and woven cloth that two women, MARY SALOME, a brown-haired slender woman about forty years old, and Cyborea, are displaying on a spread out c loth.
On the street, passing near to Mary Salome and Cyborea, are FOUR ROMAN SOLDIERS who guard two chained wretched PRISO NERS.
5 EXT. CONSTRUCTION SITE - DAY
Two men in their mid twenties, Yeshua and Judas, and two older men, their fathers, YOSEF HELI, about fifty-years old with white hair and beard, and Simon Iscariot, are working with stone and wood. The FOREMAN, an older man, looks at the sundial and sees it is quitting time.
FOR EMAN
We are finished for the day.
Y OSEF
Simon, would you and your family join us for the evening meal?
Each man carries a tool bag. Yeshua has a SMALLER BAG on a belt at his waist. From the small bag Yeshua takes a leather thong with a stone carved AMULET and puts the thong over his head.
6 EXT. MARKETPLACE - DAY
The four men approach to where Mary Salome and Cyborea are preparing to leave. Simon and Cyborea have also aged ten years though they are both healthy and of good c heer.
MARY SA LOME
Yeshua, did you have a good day, my son?
YE SHUA
Yes, mother. And you?
The four men and two women pass through the gate at the city wall, adjacent to the stone-paved market square, to begin the walk home.
7 EXT. NAZARETH - DAY
The village has homes made of stacked, plastered stones. They pass through a gate into the courtyard of the home of Yosef and Mary Salome. An older woman ANNE, grey-haired and grandmotherly, and a younger woman MARY JACOB, heavy and plain looking, in her late twenties, are cooking something in an iron pot hanging from a chain over a burning fire. SALOME, another heavy plain looking young woman, is tending a rock-stacked oven cooking bread dough into lo aves.
8 INT. YOSEF AND MARY SALOME’S HOME - N IGHT
MON TAGE
-- burning candles light the room while Yosef says the pr ayer...
Y OSEF
Blessed are You, Adonai, King of the universe, Who brings forth bread from the e arth.
-- passing the loaves of bread; pouring wine from stoneware jugs into cups, and passing bowls of food...
-- eating, talking, laug hing...
-- the men sit at the table and point to and discuss the contents of scrolls, while the women clean up from su pper...
-- Simon, Cyborea, and Judas are at the door, leaving to go to their own home...
YE SHUA
Good night, cousin. See you tomo rrow.
END MON TAGE.
9 EXT. NAZARETH - DAY
At dawn, Yeshua, Judas, Yosef, Simon, Mary Salome, Cyborea, and other TOWNSFOLK, are preparing to walk to Zipporah for the work day. The men are carrying their tool bags,