Jabberwocky
This is my interpretation of the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
Camera pans in and shows cottage; birds and other animals are being natural
Begin Dialog:
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Worm's eye view. Clouds begin to turn gray and block out the sun. Animals go into hiding and everything gets slightly darker.
Camera pans right to the cave of the creature.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!"
The creature begins to crawl out of the cave; The creature walks with hunger.
Sharp claws draw from the shadow. It searches for an opponent..
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
The Jabberwock approaches the cottage. The young lady extends her sword to challenge the animal.
He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree; And stood awhile in thought.
Their eyes meet. Challenge accepted
And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.
She reaches down....
...and grabs the head of the slained Jabberwocky!
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy.
The victorious swordsmen goes back to the cottage, and sits next to the storyteller, until the next time.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.