"BAKER:" "Once upon a time-in a far-off kingdom- there lay a small village at the edge of the woods..." "CINDERELLA:" "I wish..." "And in this village..." "CINDERELLA:" "More than anything..." "...Lived a young maiden..." "CINDERELLA:" "More than life... more than jewels..." "A care-free young lad..." "I wish..." "More than life..." "...And a childless baker..." "I wish..." "With his wife." "More than anything..." "More than the moon..." "I wish..." "The king is giving a festival." "More than life..." "I wish..." "I wish to go to the festival more than riches..." "And the ball..." "I wish my cow would give us some milk." "More than anything..." "I wish we had a child" "I wish to go to the festival my cow would give us some milk or even cheese..." "I wish." "STEPMOTHER:" "You wish to go to the festival?" "BAKER:" "The poor girl's parents had died you, cinderella, the festival?" "You wish to go to the festival?" "The festival?" "The king's festival!" "BAKER:" "And now she lived with her stepmother..." "The festival!" "BAKER:" "Who had two daughters of her own." "FLORINDA:" "Look at your nails!" "LUCINDA:" "Look at your dress!" "STEPMOTHER:" "People would laugh at you!" "CINDERELLA:" "Nevertheless." "She still wants to go the festival." "And dance before the prince!" "BAKER:" "All three were beautiful of face, but vile and black of heart." "The young lad had no father, and his mother..." "I wish." "BAKER:" "Well, she was at her wit's end." "JACK'S MOTHER:" "I wish my son were not a fool." "I wish my house was not a mess." "I wish the cow was full of milk." "I wish the walls were full of gold." "I wish a lot of things." "What in heaven's name are you doing with the cow inside the house?" "I thought if he was nice and warm he might produce some milk." "It's a she!" "How many times must I tell you?" "Only shes can give milk!" "BAKER:" "And then there was a hungry little girl..." "Who always wore a red cape..." "BAKER:" "Hey!" "I wish." "It's not for me, it's for my granny in the woods." "A loaf of bread, please, to bring my poor old hungry granny in the woods..." "Just a loaf of bread... please." "If you can pick up these lentils and finish your chores in time, then you may go to the ball with us." "Come along, ladies..." "STEPSISTERS:" "Yes, mother." "Good luck!" "CINDERELLA:" "Come little birds, down from the eaves and the leaves, over fields, out of castles and ponds..." "Ahhhhh..." "JACK:" "No, squeeze, pal..." "CINDERELLA:" "Quick, little birds, flick through the ashes." "Pick and peck, but swiftly, sift through the ashes." "Into the pot..." " Bullseye!" " What are you doing?" "Stop your pretending!" "Now listen to me well, son." "Milky-white must be taken to market." "Mother, no!" "He's the best cow in the world!" "Was." "She's been dry for weeks." "We've no food or money and no choice but to sell her." " But milky-white is my best friend!" " Look at her!" "There are bugs on her dugs." "There are flies in her eyes." "There's a lump on her rump big enough to be a hump!" "But..." "JACK'S MOTHER:" "We've no time to sit and dither while her withers wither with her..." "And no one keeps a cow for a friend!" "Sometimes I wonder what's in that head of yours." "LRRH:" "Into the woods, it's time to go" "I hate to leave, I have to, though." "Into the woods." "It's time, and so I must begin my journey." "Into the woods and through the trees to where I am expected, ma'am." "Into the woods to grandmother's house..." "LRRH: ( WITH HER MOUTH FULL ) Into the woods to grandmother's house..." "You're certain of your way?" "LRRH:" "The way is clear." "The light is good, I have no fear, nor no one should." "The woods are just trees, the treesare just wood." "I sort of hate to ask it, but do you have a basket?" "I don't suppose you're planning on buying any of these?" "Now, don't stray and be late!" "And you might save some of those sweets for granny." "Oh my g..." "She's a..." "LRRH:" "Into the woods and down the dell, the path is straight, I know it well." "Into the woods, and who can tell what's waiting on the journey?" "Into the woods to bring some bread to granny who is sick in bed." "Never can tell what lies ahead, for all that know, she's already dead." "But into the woods, into the woods, into the woods to grandmother's house and home before dark!" "LUCINDA:" "Cinderella!" "FLORINDA:" "Get up here!" "Fly birds, back to the sky, back to the eaves and the leaves and the fields and the..." "Hurry up and do my hair, cinderella!" "Are you really wearing that?" "Here, I found a little tear, cinderella!" "Can't you hide it with a hat?" " You look beautiful." " I know." " She means me." " No, she didn't!" "CINDERELLA:" "Mother said be good, father said be nice, that was always their advice." "So be nice, cinderella, good, cinderella, nice" " good good nice..." " Tighter!" "What's the good of being good if everyone is blind always leaving you behind?" "Never mind, cinderella, kind cinderella, nice-good-nice-kind-good-nice ow!" "Not that tight!" "Clod!" " Who might that be?" " We've sold our last loaf of bread!" "It's the witch from next door!" " We have no bread." " I don't want your bread." " Then what is it you wish?" " It's not what I wish." "It's what you wish." "Nothing cooking in that belly now, is there?" "And there will never be..." "Unless you do exactly as I say." "In three days' time, a blue moon will appear." "Only then can the curse be undone." "What curse?" " The one I placed on this house!" " What are you talking about?" "In the past, when you were no more than a babe, your father brought his young wife and you to this cottage." "They were a lovely couple." "But not lovely neighbors." "You see, your mother..." "Was with child and she developed an unusual appetite." "She admired my beautiful garden..." "And she told your father that what she wanted, more than anything..." "In the world was..." "Greens, greens, and nothing but greens." "Parsley, peppers, cabbages and celery." "Asparagus and watercress and fiddleferns and lettuce...!" "He said, "all right," but it wasn't, quite, 'cause" "I caught him in the autumn in my garden one night!" "He was robbing me, raping me, rooting through my rutabaga, raiding my arugula." "And ripping up the rampion my champion!" "My favorite!" "I should have laid a spell on him right there..." "I could have turned him into stone or a dog or a chair..." "But I let him have the rampion I'd lots to spare." "In return, however," "I SAID, "Fair is Fair, You can let me have the baby that your wife will bear, and we'll call it square."" " I had a brother?" " No." "But you had a sister." "Where is she?" "She's mine..." "Now and you'll never find her!" "Small price to pay for what else your father stole from me." "It cost me my youth, my beauty." "My mother warned me she would punish me with the curse of ugliness if I ever lost them." " Lost what?" " The beans!" "Beans?" "The special beans!" "I let him go, I didn't know he'd stolen my beans!" "I was watching him crawl back over the wall, when bang!" "Crash!" "The lightning flash!" "Well, that's another story..." "Never mind." "Anyway, at last the big day came and I made my claim "oh, don't take away the baby" they shriekedand screeched, but I did, and I hid her where she'll never be reached." "And your father cried and your mother died when for extra measure..." "I admit it was a pleasure..." "I said, "sorry, I'm still not mollified."" "and I laid a little spell on them..." "You too, son... that your family tree would always be a barren one..." " How could you do that to me?" " And when your mother died... your father deserted you." "Your father was no father... so why should you be?" "I'm so sorry..." "I'm so sorry... now there's no more fuss and there's no more scenes and my garden thrives." "You should see my nectarines!" "But I'm telling you the same I tell kings and queens." "Don't ever never ever mess around with my greens!" "Especially the beans." " Why do I have to go to the next village?" " Because everyone in this village... knows the cow hasn't given a drop of milk in weeks." " But that's cheating." "We're starving, jack." "Don't you understand that?" "Now, you're not to take less than five pounds for her." " Are you listening to me?" " Yes." " How much are you to ask?" " No more than five pounds." " Less!" "Than five." " ... than five!" "Into the woods, the time is now." "We have to live, I don't care how." "Into the woods to sell the cow, you must begin the journey." "Straight through the woods and don't delay we have to face the marketplace into the woods to journey's end..." "Into the woods to sell a friend..." "You wish to have the curse reversed?" "I'll need a certain potion first." "Go to the wood and bring me back." "ONE:" "The cow as white as milk," "TWO:" "The cape as red as blood," "THREE:" "The hair as yellow as corn," "FOUR:" "The slipper as pure as gold." "Bring me these before the chime of midnight..." "In three days' time, 'tis then the blue moon reappears, which comes but once each hundred years." "Bring them..." "And I guarantee, a child as perfect as child can be." "Go to the wood!" "Ladies." "Our carriage awaits!" "Now may I go to the festival?" "The festival!" "Darling, those nails!" "Darling, those clothes!" "Lentils are one thing, but darling, with those, you'd make us the fools of the festival and mortify the prince!" "The festival lasts three nights." "Surely you can let me be there for one of them." "The king is trying to find his son a wife..." "Not a scullery maid!" "We must be gone!" "Go!" "I wish." "I found." "Here." "Take this..." " I'm not wearing that." " Why?" "It was my father's." "You heard what she said." "This is all his fault." "I want nothing to do with him!" "Beans." "It must be the witch's beans!" " We'll take them with us." " We?" "Wait a minute!" "You're not coming." "It's not safe out there." "I can help you." "No." "I can do this on my own." "The spell is on my house." "Only I can lift the spell, the spell is on my house." "No, no, the spell is on our house." "We must lift the spell together, the spell is on our house." "Now tell me." "What am I to return with?" "You don't remember?" "!" "The cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold." "The cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, the slipper as pure as gold." "I still wish to go to the festival, but how am I ever to get to the festival?" "I know..." "I'll visit mother's grave, the grave at the willow tree, and tell her I just want to go to the king's festival..." "Into the woods, it's time to go, it may be all in vain, you (I) Know." "Into the woods... but even so, I have to take the journey." "Into the woods/ the path is straight, you know it well," "But who can tell...?" "Into the woods to lift the spell..." "Into the woods to visit mother..." "Into the woods to sell the cow..." " To get the money!" "..." " To go the festival..." "Into the woods to grandmother's house..." "Into the woods to grandmother's house..." "The way is clear, the light is good." "I have no fear, nor no one should." "The woods are just trees, the trees are just wood." "No need to be afraid there..." "There's something in the glade there." "Into the woods without delay, but careful not to lose the way." "Into the woods, who knows what may be lurking on the journey?" "Into the woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying." "Into the woods to see the king..." "To sell the cow..." "To make the potion..." "To see... to sell... to get..." "To bring to make... to lift... to go to the festival...!" "Into the woods!" "Into the woods!" "Into the woods," "then out of the woods, and home before dark!" "BAKER:" "Deep within the woods, cinderella had planted a branch at the grave of her mother." "And she visited there so often, and wept so much, that her tears watered it until it had become a magnificent tree." "I wish..." "C'S MOTHER:" "What is it that you wish, child?" "Do you know what you wish?" "Are you certain what you wish is what you want?" "If you know what you want, then make a wish..." "Ask the tree, and you shall have your wish." "Thank you, mother." "On her path to granny's, the little girl suddenly found herself..." "In a very unusual part of the wood." "WOLF:" "Good day, young lady." "Good day, mr." "Wolf." " Whither away so hurriedly?" " To my grandmother's." " And what might be in your basket?" " It's bread for grandmother..." "So she'll have something good to make her strong." "And where might your grandmother live?" "A quarter of a league further in the woods;" "Her house stands inside a great oak tree." "Mmmmh... unhh..." "Look at that flesh, pink and plump." "Hello, little girl..." "Tender and fresh, not one lump." "Hello, little girl..." "This one's especially lush, delicious... hello, little girl, what's your rush?" "You're missing all the flowers." "The sun won't set for hours, take your time." "Mother said, "straight ahead," not to delay or be misled." "But slow, little girl, hark!" "And hush- the birds are singing sweetly." "You'll miss the birds completely, you're travelling so fleetly." "Grandmother first, then miss plump..." "What a delectable couple." "Utter perfection, One brittle, one supple... one moment, my dear... mother said, "come what may, follow the path and never stray."" "just so, little girl... any path." "So many worth exploring." "Just one would be so boring." "And look what you're ignoring..." "Think of those crisp, aging bones, then something fresh on the palate." "Think of that scrumptious carnality/ twice in one day..." "There's no possible way to describe what you feel when you're talking to your meal!" "For granny." "Mother said not to stray." "Still, I suppose, a small delay..." "Granny might like a fresh bouquet..." " Goodbye, mr." "Wolf." " Goodbye, little girl." "And hello..." "Why are you waiting for?" "!" "Go get the cape!" "You frightened me!" "Get it!" "Get it!" "Get it!" " How am I supposed to get it?" " You go up to the..." " Little thing, and you take it." " I can't just take a cloak from a little girl." "Why don't you take it!" "It's the rules." "Why do you think I asked you in the first place?" "I'm not allowed to touch any of the objects!" "Get me what I need!" "Hello there little girl." "Hello, mr." "Baker." "Have you saved some of those sweets for granny?" "I ate all the sweets and half the loaf of bread." "So I see!" "Now tell me... where did you get that beautiful cape?" " My granny made it for me." " Is that right?" " I would love a red cape like that." " You'd look pretty foolish." "May I take a look at it?" " No!" " I need it badly." "Please... give it back!" "Aaa." "I'm sorry." "I just wanted to make sure that you really loved this cape." "Now off you go to granny's... and be careful that no wolf comes your way." "I would rather a wolf than you any day." "This is hopeless." "I'll never get that red cape or find a yellow slipper or a golden cow or was it a golden slipper and a yellow cow?" " What are you doing here?" " You forgot your scarf." "You shouldn't be here." "It's not safe in these woods!" " I want to help." " No!" "The spell is on my house..." "Our house... we must lift the spell together!" "The spell is on... only" "I can lift the spell, the spell is on my house...!" "The spell is on..." "A cow as white as..." "Milk." "Go." "Hello there, young lad." "Hello, sir." "What might you be doing with a cow in the middle of the forest?" "I was heading toward market..." " But I seem to have lost my way." " What are you planning to do there?" " And what are you planning to do there?" " Sell my cow, sir." " No less than five pounds." " Five pounds!" "Where are we to get five pounds?" "She must be generous of milk to fetch five pounds?" "Yes, ma'am." "And if you can't fetch that sum?" "Then what are you to do?" "I hadn't thought of that..." "This is all we have..." "Beans?" "We mustn't give up our beans!" "Well, if you feel we must..." " Beans in exchange for my cow?" " Oh son, these are no ordinary beans." "These beans carry... magic." "Magic?" "What kind of magic?" "Tell him!" "It's a... it's a magic that defies description." "How many beans?" " Six." " Five they're worth a pound each, at least." " Could I buy my cow back someday?" " Well ..." "Yes... possibly." "Here." "Yes, this things probably made a fair trade." "12345 allright bro." "Good luck in there, pleasure doing buisness with you." "One day, I'll buy you back." "Promise!" "Take the cow and go home!" " I was just trying to help." " Magic beans!" "We've no reason to believe they're magic!" "Are we going to dispel this curse through deceit?" "No one would have given him more for this creature." "We did him a favor." "At least they'll have some food." " Five beans?" "!" " Do we want a child or not?" "Of course." "I do." "But... we have one chance." "Don't you see that?" "And if we fail..." "I'm just not sure I'm cut out to be a father." " Why do you say that?" " Because of my father." " You're not him." " I don't know..." "If you can't do this for yourself, can't you at least do it for me?" "Ok." "You take the cow and go home." "I'll find the rest of the things." "On my own." "Rapunzel." "Rapunzel." "Let down your hair to me." "R'S PRINCE:" "Rapunzel..." "The old enchantress had given the name rapunzel to the child she had hidden away and locked in a a doorless tower." "But little did she know that the girl's lilting voice had caught the attention of a handsome prince."" "rapunzel..." " Don't you look lovely today, my dear." " Thank you, mother." "I brought your favorite." "Blackberries, fresh from the garden." "As the little girl approached her granny's oak tree, she was surprised to see the door standing open." "Oh dear, how uneasy I feel." "Perhaps it's all the sweets." "GRANNY?" "WOLF: (IN A GRANNY VOICE) Come in, my deary." "My, grandmother." "You're looking very strange." "What big ears you have!" "The better to hear you with, my dear." "And with a single bound, the wolf had devoured the little girl." "Well, it was a full day of eating for both." "I can't believe I just did that." "Wait!" "Aren't you going to help us skin that beast?" " No thanks!" "GRANNY:" "What kind of hunter are you?" "I'm a baker." "Wait a minute." "I never thanked you." " You need to be more careful, young lady." " I'm sorry." "I should have known better." "Mother said," ""straight ahead," not to delay or be misled." "I should have heeded her advice..." "But he seemed so nice." "And he showed me things, many beautiful things, that I hadn't thought to explore." "They were off my path, so I never had dared." "I had been so careful I never had cared." "And he made me feel excited... well, excited and scared." "When he said "come in!"/ with that sickening grin, how could I know what was in store?" "Once his teeth were bared, / though, I really got scared... / well, excited and scared." "But he drew me close and he swallowed me down, down a dark, slimy path/ where lie secrets that I never want to know," "and when everything familiar seemed to disappear forever, at the end of the path was granny once again." "So we lay in the dark till you came and set us free," "and you brought us to the light, and we're back at the start." "And I know things now, many valuable things, that I hadn't known before." "Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood, they will not protect you the way that they should." "And take extra care with strangers..." "even flowers have their dangers." "And though scary is exciting, nice is different than good." "Mr. baker." "You saved our lives." "Here." "Are you certain?" "Yes." "Maybe granny will make me another with the skins of the wolf." "Thank you - thank you - yuck!" "Now, I know, Don't be scared." "Granny is right, just be prepared." "Isn't it nice to know a lot?" "And a little bit not..." "How could you do this?" "What sort of boy would exchange a cow for beans?" "But they're magic... the man said..." " Get your head out of the clouds!" " Mother... no!" "You and your worthless adventures!" "Will you never learn, jack?" "!" "To bed without supper for you!" "Pills!" "The first night of the festival ball brought cinderella her wish." "The prince danced only with her, 'til he turned and she had slipped away." "I must find that girl!" " Are you alright, miss?" " Yes." " I just need to catch my breath." " What a beautiful gown you're wearing." "Were you at the king's festival?" "Yes." "Aren't you the lucky one." "Why ever are you in the woods at this hour?" "STEWARD:" "This way!" "Please." "Don't let them know I'm here." "Omg!" "Have you seen a beautiful young woman in a ball gown pass through?" "I don't think so, sir." "If I may, my lord, I think I see her over there." "I've never lied to royalty before." " I've never anything to royalty before!" " Thank you." "If a prince were looking for me, I certainly wouldn't hide." "Well, what brings you here... and with a cow?" "Oh, my husband's somewhere in the woods." "He's undoing a spell." " Oh!" "Oh, yes." "But tell me, the prince, what was he like?" " He's a very nice prince." " And?" "And..." "It's a very nice ball." " And?" " And... when I entered, they trumpeted." "And?" "The prince...?" "Oh, the prince..." "Yes, the prince!" " Well, he's tall." " Is that all?" "Did you dance?" "Is he charming?" "They say that he's charming." " We did nothing but dance." " Yes." " And?" " And it made a nice change." "No, the prince!" "Oh, the prince..." "Yes, the prince." " He has charm for a prince, I guess..." " Guess?" "I don't meet a wide range." "And it's all very strange." "But why would you run away?" " It's not quite what I expected." " Princes, castles, gowns..." "I have no experience with those things." "But you will return to the festival tomorrow eve?" " Yes." " No..." "I don't know..." "You don't know?" "What I wouldn't give to be in your shoes." "I mean your slippers." " As pure as gold?" " I must get home." "No, wait!" "I need your shoes!" "Milky-white!" "One midnight gone!" " Already?" "!" " Get that cow!" "Mr. baker!" "Mr. baker!" "Good fortune!" "Good fortune, sir!" "Look what I have!" "Five gold pieces." "How would you come by five gold pieces?" "!" "There are giants in the sky!" "There are big tall terrible giants in the sky!" "When you're way up high and you look below at the world you've left and the things you know, little more than a glance is enough to show you just how small you are." "When you're way up high and you're on your own in a world like none that you've ever known, where the sky is lead and the earth is stone, you're free to do whatever pleases you," "exploring things you'd never dare 'cause you don't care, when suddenly there's a big tall terrible giant at the door." "A giant?" "A big tall terrible lady giant sweeping the floor and she gives you food and she gives you rest and she draws you close to her giant breast and you know things now that you never knew before" "not till the sky." "Only just when you've made a friend and all, and you know she's big but you don't feel small someone bigger than her comes along the hall to swallow you for lunch." "And your heart is lead and your stomach stone and you're really scared being all alone, and it's then that you miss all the things you've known and the world you've left and the little you own." "The fun is done." "You steal what you can and run!" "And you scramble down and you look below, and the world you know begins to grow." "The house, and your mother at the door." "The roof, the house, and the world you never thought to explore." "And you think of all of the things you've seen." "And you wish that you could live in between, and you're back again, only different than before," "after the sky." "There are giants in the sky!" "There are big tall terrible awesome scary wonderful giants in the sky!" "So, here's your money, sir!" "Five gold pieces." "Where is my milky-white?" "Milky-white is back home with my wife." "Let's go find them!" "Wait a minute!" "I'm not sure I want to sell." "But you said I could buy her back." "Do you want more money?" " No, no, no!" "It's not that..." " You keep that." "I'll fetch some more." "Wait." "I didn't say... wait!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "I said wait!" " What are you doing here?" " Well..." "I see you've got the red cape!" "Yes." "I've got the cape." "Only two items left." " Three." " We've the cape and the cow." "You've got the cape..." "What have you done with the cow?" "!" " She ran away." " What!" "I never reached home." "I've been looking for her all night." "How could you?" "She might just as easily have run from you!" " But she didn't!" "But she might have!" " But she didn't!" " But she might have!" " But she didn't!" "Who cares!" "The cow is gone!" "Get it back!" "Get it back!" "We were just going to do that." "Here." " In the meantime..." " Stay away from me with that, fool!" "I can't touch it!" "By midnight tomorrow bring me the items or that child you wish for will never see the light of day!" "I don't like that woman." " I'm sorry I lost the cow." " I shouldn't have yelled." "Will you go back to the village?" "I will make things right." "And then we can just go about our life." "No more witches or dimwitted boys or hungry little girls." "You go!" ", please..." "Go." "Good brother." "I was wondering where you'd gone." " I have been looking all night for her." " Her?" "The beautiful one I danced the evening with." "Where did she go?" "Disappeared... like the fine morning mist." "She was lovely?" "The loveliest." "I am not certain of that!" "I must confess, I too have found a lovely maiden." "She lives here in the woods." " She lives here in the woods." " In the woods?" "Yes." "In the top of a tall tower that has no door or stairs." "Where?" "Two leagues from here, due east, just beyond the mossy knoll near the rose thickets." "And how do you manage a visit?" "I stand beneath her tower and say, "rapunzel, rapunzel, let down your hair to me." and then she lowers the longest, most beautiful head of hair - yellow as corn - which I climb." "Rapunzel, rapunzel!" "What kind of name is that?" "You jest!" "I have never heard of such a thing." "I speak the truth!" "She is as true as your maiden." "A maiden running from a prince?" "None would run from us." "Yet one has." "Did I abuse her or show her disdain?" "Why does she run from me?" "If I should lose her, how shall I regain the heart she has won from me?" "Agony...!" "Beyond power of speech." "When the one thing you want is the only thing out of your reach." "High in her tower, she sits by the hour, maintaining her hair." "Blithe and becoming, and frequently humming a lighthearted air "ah-ah-ah-ah-ahahah... "" "agony...!" "Far more painful than yours, when you know she would go with you, if there only were doors." "Agony!" "Oh the torture they teach!" "What's as intriguing... or half so fatiguing... as what's out of reach?" "Am I not sensitive, clever, wellmannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome, and heir to a throne?" "You are everything maidens could wish for!" " Then why no...?" " Do I know?" "The girl must be mad." "You know nothing of madness till you're climbing her hair and you see her up there as you're nearing her, all the while hearing her, "ah-ah-ahah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... "" "agony!" "Misery!" "Woe!" "Though it's different for each." "Always ten steps behind... always ten feet below... and she's just out of reach agony!" "That can cut like a knife!" "I must have her to wife." "Rapunzel, rapunzel?" "Let your hair down to me." "Is that you at this hour, my prince?" "Yes." "Excuse me for this." "As the baker's wife bolted from the tower, the second night of the festival was thrown into chaos when cinderella once again ran from the prince." " What are you doing?" " So sorry I need your shoes." "Over here!" " Who is she?" "Where did she go?" " I have no idea, sir." " Don't play the fool, woman!" " I was trying to hold her here for you..." "I can capture my own damsel, thank you." "No sign of her, my liege." "Well, what are you waiting for?" "See if you can find her." "Go!" "The woods can be a dangerous place..." "Moo... moo..." "Please, if you would be so kind, may I compare this ear of corn with your hair?" "Mongrel!" "Milky-white!" " I thought you were returning home!" " Oh!" "It's you!" "And you've the cow!" "Yes." "I got the cow." "We've two of the four." "Three two -three compare this to your corn." " Where did you find it?" " I pulled it from a maiden in a tower." " Three!" " And had I almost go the fourth, but she got away." "We've one entire day left." "Surely we can locate the slipper by then." "We?" "You mean you're going to let me stay with you?" "Well... perhaps it will take the two of us to have this child." "You've changed." "You're daring." "You're different in the woods." "More sure, more sharing." "You're getting us through the woods." "If you could see... you're not the man who started, and much more openhearted then I knew you to be." "It takes two." "I thought one was enough, it's not true." "It takes two of us you came through when the journey was rough... it took you it took two of us." "It takes care, it takes patience and fear and despair to change though you swear to change, who can tell if you do?" "It takes two." "You've changed." "You're thriving." "There's something about the woods." "Not just surviving, you're blossoming in the woods." "At home I'd fear we'd stay the same forever." "And then out here you're passionate, charming, considerate, clever... it takes one to begin, but then once you've begun, it takes two of you." "It's no fun, but what needs to be done you can do when there's two of you." "If I dare, it's because I'm becoming aware of us as a pair of us each accepting a share of what's there." "We've changed." "We're strangers." "I'm meeting you in the woods." "Who minds what dangers?" "I know we'll get past the woods." "And once we're past, let's hope the changes last beyond woods, beyond witches and slippers and hoods just the two of us beyond lies, safe at home with our beautiful prize, just the few of us." "It takes trust." "It takes just a bit more and we're done we want four, we had none." "We've got three." "We need one." "It takes two." "Stop it!" "Stop my egg!" "Oh, brilliant!" "My milky-white." " I missed you so much!" " Where did you get this?" "From the giant's hen!" "A golden egg!" "I've never seen a golden egg before." "And you can have it." "Along with the five gold pieces." " Five gold pieces?" " Now I'm taking my cow." " O.." "No, I didn't wish to sell." " But you took the five gold pieces." " I didn't take, you gave." " You said I could have my cow!" "Now I never said you could." "I said you might." "You would take money before a child?" "!" "No, no, no - it's not like that!" "It's not how it sounds!" "Milky-white...!" "Milky-white is dead!" "Two midnights gone!" "When dawn broke, the baker and his wife had but one day left to reverse the witch's curse." "As for rapunzel's prince, he returned yet again to the forbidden tower." "Bad idea!" "Are you allright?" "Yah, yah, me allright." "What did I clearly say?" "Children must listen." "No, no, please!" "What were you not to do?" "Children must see..." "No!" "And learn." "Why could you not obey?" "Children should listen." "What have I been to you?" "What would you have me be, handsome like a prince?" "Ah, but I am old." "I am ugly." "I embarrass you." "No!" " You are ashamed of me." " No!" "You are ashamed." "You don't understand." "I'm no longer a child." "I wish to see the world." "Don't you know what's out there in the world?" "Someone has to shield you from the world stay with me." "Princes wait there in the world, it's true." "Princes, yes, but wolves and humans, too." "Stay at home." "I am home." "Who out there could love you more than I?" "What out there that I cannot supply?" "Stay with me." "Stay with me, the world is dark and wild" "stay a child while you can be a child." "With me." "I gave you protection and yet you disobeyed me." "No!" "Your prince will never lay eyes on you again." "He will never lay eyes on anything again!" "What did you do to him?" "It doesn't matter..." "Because where you're going, no one will ever see you again." "No, no!" "No!" " Hey there, nice cape!" " Stay away from my cape or I'll slash you into a thousand bits!" "Whoa!" "I don't want it." "Where did you get it?" "My granny made it for me from a wolf that attacked us." "And she gave me this beautiful knife for protection." "Well, look what I have!" "A golden egg." "Where did you get that egg?" "I stole a hen that lays golden eggs from the kingdom of the giant." "I don't believe you." "It's true." "And you should see the giant's toy harp." "It plays the most beautiful tunes without your even having to touch it." "Of course it does." "Why don't you go up to the kingdom right now and bring it back and show it?" "I could." " You could not!" "I could!" " You could not, mr." "Liar!" "I am not a liar!" "I'll get that harp." "You'll see!" "Jack took the little girl's dare and before he knew it, found himself fleeing from a giant." "We've only one day left!" "I don't know where to start." "You can start by buying a new cow with the money you took from the boy." "Right, where do I buy a cow?" "You go to the next village, you'll find a cow there." "What are you going to do?" "I'm going to get the slipper." " The yellow slipper?" " The golden slipper!" "Yes." "The golden slipper, that's what I meant." "How are you gon'na find it?" "I have met a maiden with golden slippers these two previous nights." "You think you could get one?" "Yes, I'm sure of it." "I'll meet you back here." "Right." "Why are we always separating?" "Because we have to if we're going to be together..." "What is happening?" "The entire kingdom shook when the beanstalk came crashing down, killing the giant... as for cinderella, she fled from the prince... again." "He's a very smart prince he's a prince who prepares." "Knowing this time I'd run from him, he spread pitch on the stairs." "And I'm caught unawares." "Well, it means that he cares..." "This is more than just malice." "Better stop and take stock while you're standing here stuck/ on the steps of the palace." "All right, what do you want?" "Have to make a decision." "Why not stay and be caught?" "Should I give that a thought, what would be his response?" "But then what if he knew who I am when I know that I'm not what he thinks that he wants?" "Or then what if I am what a prince would envision?" "But then how can you know who you are till you know what you want, which I don't?" "So then which do you pick, Where you're safe, out of sight, and yourself, but where everything's wrong?" "Or where everything's right but you know that you'll never belong?" "And whichever you pick, do it quick, 'cause you're starting to stick to the steps of the palace." "It's my first big decision, the choice isn't easy to make." "To arrive at a ball is exciting and all..." "Once you're there, though, it's scary." "And it's fun to deceive when you know you can leave, but you have to be wary." "There's a lot that's at stake, but I've stalled long enough 'cause I'm still standing stuck in the stuff on these steps better run along home and avoid the collision though at home they don't care, I'll be better off there" "where there's nothing to choose, so there's nothing to lose." "So I'll pry up my shoes." "Wait, though, thinking it through, things don't have to collide..." "I know what my decision is, Which is not to decide." "I'll just leave him a clue, For example, a shoe." "And then see what he'll do." "Now it's he and not you who'll be stuck with a shoe in a stew, in the goo, and I've learned something too, something I never knew, on the steps of the palace!" "The ball is over." "Send everyone home." " And the princess?" " She won't get far with one shoe." " Don't come any closer to me." " Please, stop!" "Just hear me out!" " You have attacked me once before." " I didn't attack you." "I attacked your shoe." "I need it." "I have a magic bean in exchange for it." "Magic bean?" " Nonsense!" " Wait, please." "I haven't much time!" "I need that shoe to have a child." "That makes no sense!" "Does it make sense that you're running from a prince?" "I must go!" "Take my shoes." "You'll run faster." "Stop!" "What is that you have in your hand?" "It's mine." "Lying will cost you your life!" "I don't care if this costs me my life... get away!" "You will pay for this!" "Sire!" "I have succeeded in obtaining the other slipper." "Please give me the slipper, kind prince, and all will come to a happy end." "Step back, peon!" "Do as she says, steward." "We only need one." "We must search immediately for the maiden who fits this slipper." " Tonight?" " This very night!" "And in her haste, the baker's wife took no notice of a second beanstalk climbing skyward." "Let it be known that his royal highness the crown prince will be visiting every house in this village tonight." "All young maidens are hereby commanded to remain in their home until they are visited by the royal guard." "All young maidens are hereby..." "As the prince anxiously waited, the stepmother took matters... and florinda's foot... into her own hands." "Careful, my toe...!" "Darling, I know..." "It'll have to go." "But when you're his bride, you can sit or ride." "You'll never need to walk!" "Aaaaaaaaa!" "Minus one toe, florinda mounted the prince's horse, unaware of the blood dripping from the slipper." "Lucinda was next." "Why won't it fit?" "Darling, be still." "Cut off a bit of the heel and it will." "And when you're his wife you'll have such a life, you'll never need to walk!" "Aaaaaa...!" "Minus a heel, lucinda did her best to swallow the pain." "It's a perfect fit, your highness!" "Have you no other daughters?" "Only a little stunted kitchen wench, which her late father left behind but she cannot present herself." "She is too dirty." "I would recognize these beautiful eyes anywhere." "This is the true bride!" "You are my true bride!" "As punishment for their cruelty, cinderella's birds swooped down upon the stepsisters..." "And blinded them." "As for rapunzel, the witch had banished her to a swamp in the darkest depths of the forest." "Rapunzel?" "Rapunzel?" "Rapunzel?" "My darling!" "I'm here." "Rapunzel?" "Rapunzel?" "Rapunzel?" "Is it you?" "I'm blind, I can't see." "How could she do this to you?" " Rapunzel!" " What?" "I can see you!" "You are here." "Come on!" "We don't have any time..." "Come on!" "I've found you!" "You've got the cow!" "You've got the slipper!" "We've all four!" "I see a cow." "I see a slipper." "And the cape as red as blood." "And the hair as yellow as corn." "We got all full." "Wait a minute!" "That cow doesn't look as white as milk to me of course she is." "She has to be!" "This cow has been covered with flour!" "What?" "You didn't get a real white cow." "We had a cow as white as milk." "Honestly we did." " Then where is she?" " She's dead." "And we thought you'd prefer a live cow." "Of course I'd prefer a live cow!" "So show me the dead cow and I'll bring her back to life!" "Ok." "This way, this way." "Jack!" "Jack!" "There you are!" "I've been worried sick about you!" "There's a dead giant in our backyard!" " There is?" " You know there is." "You could have been crushed!" "But mother, look." "The most beautiful harp." "You've stolen too much." "You could have been killed coming down that plant we're running out of time!" "It's here..." "What's happening?" "" "She's going to bring milky-white back to life." " She can do that?" " She's a witch!" "She can do anything!" " Wow!" " Stand back!" "Milky-white." "You're back!" "I can't believe it!" "It's almost midnight!" "Quiet!" "Feed the objects to the cow." " What?" " You heard me!" "Feed them to the cow really!" "Fill with the milk." "I'll do it." "She'll only milk for me." "Good boy" "squeeze, pal!" "You can do it." "Not working!" "Wrong ingredients." "Forget about a child!" "No, no, no..." "Wait!" "We followed your instructions." "One, the cow is as white as milk." "Correct?" "Yes." "And two, the cape was certainly as red as blood." "Yes and three, the slipper..." "Yes and four, I compared the hair with this ear of corn." "Yes" "I pulled it from a maiden in a tower and..." "You what?" "!" "What were you doing there?" "Well, nothing." "I happened to be passing by..." "I touched that hair!" "I told you!" "I cannot have touched the ingredients!" "Nooooo... the corn!" "The corn!" "You can use the silky hair of the corn..." "Yes!" "Yes!" "Pull it from the ear and feed it to the cow." "Quickly!" " It's working!" " She's milking!" "At last!" "And it came to pass, all that seemed wrong was now right." "The witch succeeded in reversing her mother's curse." "Cinderella finally stopped running from her prince." "Jack was reunited with his beloved cow and his mother could now dress in the best a golden egg could buy." "And the baker and his wife were proud parents of a strapping baby boy." "Thanks for the slipper." "Attention!" "Let us cheer the newlyweds as they embark on their happy bliss today, and ever after..." "And so with the kingdom filled with joy, those who deserved to were destined to live happily ever..." "Jack?" "Jack...?" "Attention!" "Attention!" "Let there be no panic." "No panic!" "The royal prince wishes to address his loyal subjects." "Attention!" "There's no need for worry." "It was an earthquake in a far-off quadrant of our kingdom." "Nothing to fear at all." "I would personally investigate the disturbance." "Now everyone, back to your villages, and on with your lives!" "But as they made their way back into the woods, their familiar paths were nowhere to be found" "and their lives were about to take an unexpected turn." "Everything's so different." "Hello, little one." " Hello, mr." "Baker." " You alright?" "What are you doing here?" "With a suitcase?" "I'm moving in with granny." "Our whole village collapsed." "I couldn't find my mother anywhere." "And now I can't find my granny's cottage." "What do you mean?" "I went down the dell, and I didn't recognize anything." "There was no path." "Where's she?" "Where's granny?" "Calm, calm." "Ok." "We can help you find granny's without the path." "Please take him for a few moments." "Really!" "Why does he always cry when I hold him?" "You needn't hold him as if he was so fragile." "He doesn't want me." "He wants his mother!" "I can't take care of him all of the time." "I'll take care of him... when he's older..." "Who might that be?" "It's the steward and the royal family." "Hello, there!" "What brings you into the woods?" "The castle has been destroyed." "No!" "The kingdom is under attack." "What is the royal family going to do?" "I have no idea!" "I don't make policy." "I just carry it out." "I think it best we get back to the village." "We'll take the girl with us." "You come with us." " It's a giant!" " A giant woman!" "Where is the lad who killed my husband?" "There is no lad here!" "We haven't seen him." "We'll get him for you right away." "Don't move!" "It was you who destroyed our house - not an earthquake." "And who destroyed my house?" "I want him!" "Would you like a blind girl instead?" "How dare you?" "She wants the boy!" "Jack!" "Has anyone seen my jack?" "He ran off again and I've been..." "She's looking for him too." "Give him to me!" "Jack is just a lad!" "We had no food to eat so he sold his beloved cow in exchange for magic beans." "The boy" " I want the boy!" "You leave my boy alone!" "I'm waiting!" "Don't make her angry, woman, or you'll get us all killed!" "Flouncing through our kingdom with your great big clodhopppers, destroying everything in your path." "You big bully!" "I'll hide my son and you'll never find him." "You'll never, ever... get back woman!" "The boy is hiding in the steeple tower." "You can find him there." "Yes, that's true." "Yes." "The steeple tower.We saw him there!" "If he is not," "I will return tonight and find you!" "All of you!" "Look!" "What have you done to her?" "I didn't mean to hurt her." "I was just thinking of the greater good." "Listen everyone." "If we're going to get through this we have to stick together." "Some people are cut out to battle giants, and others are not." "I don't have the constitution." "And as long as I can be of no help, I'm going to hide." "Let's go!" "Everything will work out fine in the end." "Not always." "I don't know where they think they're going." "The giant's already destroyed the entire village." "Only thing left of my garden are these beans." "What are we going to do now?" "We have no choice." "Find the boy and give her what she wants." "But if we do, she'll kill jack." "And if we don't she'll kill half the kingdom!" "Promise me you won't let them get jack." "Promise!" "Okay, I promise." "Rapunzel!" "You're safe!" "Thank goodness." " Who are you?" " Surely you remember?" "Of course you don't recognize me, mother!" "This is who I truly am, my dear." "Now you don't have to be embarrassed by me." "You must come with me." "There's a giant in the land." "My darling." "Are you all right?" "Why did you run off?" " I was afraid." " Come with me." "She's not going with you!" "You will come with me." "I will not come with you!" "Then you leave me no choice." "No!" "Omg!" "You!" "The one who blinded me." " And locked me in a tower." " To protect you." "And then banished me to an island... in the middle of a swamp!" "I was just trying to be a good mother!" "Rapunzel, no!" "You will never be safe with him." "Take me away from here." "Don't you understand?" "I never want to see you again." "Ever!" "Rapunzel, the giant!" "No matter what you say children won't listen no matter what you know children refuse to learn." "Guide them along the way still they don't listen." "Children can only grow from something you love to something you lose" "jack!" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Where are you?" "Jack!" "We're never going to find him." "We should fan out." "It'll increase our chances." " No." "You can't be on your own." " I'll be all right." "What if we get lost?" "We'll count our steps from right here." " I'll go, too." " No." "You stay right here with the baby." "We'll be right back." " You would leave our son with her?" " Yes." "He's asleep." "He'll be safe with the girl." "I am very capable of caring for the baby." "See?" "But what if the giant comes back..." "What if, what if!" "Five hundred paces." "Go!" "123 wait!" "Here." "Take this." "It might be cold." "Ok. 1234" " 56" " Jack!" " 910" " Jack!" "697071727374 ãñíèç hello, your royal highness." "Hello." "Hello again." "We met before actually." "Yes, of course." "You must be here to slay the giant." "The giant?" "Yes." "Surely you've heard there is a giant in our..." "Midst." "Not an earthquake..." "Of course." "A giant." "Yes, it's a lady giant." "It's a very unusual, huh?" "I should think." "And why are you alone in the woods?" "Well, I came with my husband." "We were... well you see..." "It's a long story." "He would let you roam alone in the woods?" "No, actually it was my choice." " How brave!" " Brave yes." "Anything can happen in the woods may I kiss you?" "Any moment we could be crushed -uh..." "Don't feel rushed." "This is ridiculous, what am I doing here?" "I'm in the wrong story." "Wait one moment, please!" "We can't do this!" "You have a princess!" "Well, yes, I do." "And I have a... baker." "Of course, you're right." "How foolish." "Foolishness can happen in the woods once again, please..." "let your hesitations be hushed." "Any moment, big or small, is a moment, after all." "Seize the moment, skies may fall any moment." "But this is not right!" "Right and wrong don't matter in the woods only feelings." "Let us meet the moment unblushed life is often so unpleasant..." "You must know that, as a peasant... best to take the moment present as a present for the moment." "7778 479480" "481482 excuse me, ma'am." "Have you seen a boy..." "He is about so high..." "I'm sorry, may I be of some service?" "The tree has fallen." "Mother's grave, destroyed." "Oh." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't complain." "I'm sure others have suffered worse after the earthquake earthquake?" "It's no earthquake... there's a giant terrorizing the kingdom!" "Well, I'm sure the prince will see to it that the giant is rid from our land." "Hah, the prince?" "No doubt he's off somewhere seducing some young maiden." "What?" "You look just like the princess... but dirty." "Oh no, you are the princess!" "I'm sorry." "I didn't recognize you." "No, no." "Please... get up!" "I'm not a princess here." "I had to disguise myself." "I'm not permitted to leave the palace unescorted." "If you'd like you can come with me." "You will be safe in our company." "Thank you." "This way." "I must leave you." "Now I must go off to slay a giant." "I shall not forget you." "How brave you are to be alone in the woods." "And how alive you've made me feel." "What was that?" "Was that me?" "Was that him?" "Did a prince really kiss me and kiss me?" "And kiss me?" "And did I kiss him back?" "Was it wrong?" "Am I mad?" "Is that all?" "Does he miss me?" "Was he suddenly getting bored with me?" "Wake up!" "Stop dreaming stop prancing about the woods it's not beseeming." "What is it about the woods?" "Back to life, back to sense, back to child back to husband, no one lives in the woods." "There are vows, there are ties, there are needs, there are standards there are shouldn'ts and shoulds." "Why not both instead?" "There's the answer, if you're clever." "Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread, and a prince for whatever... never!" "It's these woods." "Face the facts, find the boy join the group, stop the giant just get out of these woods." "Was that him?" "Yes it was." "Was that me?" "No, it wasn't just a trick of the woods." "Just a moment, one peculiar passing moment..." "Must it all be either less or more, either plain or grand?" "Is it always "or"?" "Is it never "and"?" "That's what woods are for." "For those moments in the woods." "Oh, if life were made of moments even now and then a bad one...!" "But if life were only moments." "Then you'd never know you had one first a witch, then a child, then a prince then a moment... who can live in the woods?" "And to get what you wish, only just for a moment..." "These are dangerous woods..." "Let the moment go." "Don't forget it for a moment, though." "Just remembering you've had an "and," when you're back to "or"" "makes the "or" mean more than it did before now I understand... and it's time to leave the woods!" "72,73" " she should be back by now." " She wouldn't get lost." "I'm sure she'll return." " No, I must go and look for her..." " Look who I found!" "You're hurting me!" "Let go of him!" "I'll let go of him when I give him to the giant." "Make her stop!" "Leave him alone!" " Keep away from him." " Stop!" "I said stop!" "Where did you find this?" "I'm sorry, sir..." "It's my wife's!" "I'm sorry." "I came upon her." "She was at the bottom of a cliff..." "What are you saying?" " How awful..." " No." "No...!" "This is my fault." "I let her wander off alone." "I should have made her stay with me." "Remorse will get you nowhere." "My wife is dead!" "Wake up!" "When you're dead, you're dead." "Now it's time to get this boy to the giant before we're all... keep away from him." "No!" "This is no time to be soft-hearted!" "He's going to the giant and I'm taking him." "Yes!" "He's the one to blame!" "It's because of you there's a giant in our midst and my wife is dead!" "But it isn't my fault, I was given those beans!" "You persuaded me to trade away my cow for beans!" "And without those beans there'd have been no stalk to get up to the giants in the first place!" "Wait a minute... magic beans for a cow so old that you had to tell a lie to sell it, which you told!" "Were they worthless beans?" "Were they oversold?" "Oh, and tell us who persuaded you to steal that gold!" " See, it's your fault." " No!" " Yes, it is!" " It's no!" " It's true." " Wait a minute, though..." "I only stole the gold to get my cow back from you!" "So it's your fault!" "Yes!" "No, it isn't!" "I'd have kept those beans, but our house was cursed." "She made us get a cow to get the curse reversed!" "It's his father's fault that the curse got placed and the place got cursed in the first place!" "Oh." "Then it's his fault!" "So." "It was his fault." " No." " Yes, it is, it's his." " I guess..." " Wait a minute though..." "I chopped down the beanstalk, right?" "That's clear." "But without any beanstalk, then what's queer is how did the second giant get down here in the first place?" "Second place..." " Yes!" " How?" "Hmm... well, who had the other bean?" "The other bean?" "The other bean?" "You pocketed the other bean." "I didn't!" "Yes, I did." "So it's your fault...!" "No, it isn't 'cause I gave it to my wife!" "So it's her fault...!" "No, it isn't!" "Then whose is it?" "Wait a minute!" "She exchanged that bean to obtain your shoe, so the one who knows what happened to the bean is you!" "You mean that old bean that your wife...?" "Oh, dear..." "But I never knew, and so I threw..." "Well, don't look here!" "So it's your fault!" "But..." "See, it's her fault...!" "But- and it isn't mine at all!" " But what?" "Well, if you hadn't gone back up again..." "You were greedy!" "Did you need that hen?" " But I got it for my mother...!" " So it's her fault then!" "Yes, and what about the harp in the third place?" "The harp... yes!" "She went and dared me to!" "I dared you to?" "You dared me to!" "She said that I was scared..." "Me?" "..." "To." "She dared me!" " No, I didn't!" " So it's your fault!" "Wait a minute...!" "If you hadn't dared him to... and you had left the harp alone, we wouldn't be in trouble in the first place!" "Well, if you hadn't thrown -well, if she hadn't raised them in the first place...!" "Away the bean in the first place...!" "It was your fault!" "It's the last midnight." "It's the last wish." "It's the last midnight" "soon it will be boom... squish!" "Told a little lie, stole a little gold, broke a little vow, did you?" "Had to get your prince had to get your cow had to get your wish, doesn't matter how... anyway it doesn't matter now." "It's the last midnight it's the boom... splat!" "Nothing but a vast midnight everybody smashed flat!" "Nothing we can do..." "Not exactly true." "We can always give her the boy." "No?" "No, of course what really matters is the blame." "Someone you can blame." "Fine if that's the thing you enjoy, placing the blame, if that's the aim, give me the blame..." "Just give me the boy." "No." "You're so nice." "You're not good, you're not bad you're just nice." "I'm not good, I'm not nice," "I'm just right." "I'm the witch." "You're the world." "I'm the hitch, I'm what no one believes, I'm the witch." "You're all liars and thieves." "Like his father, like his son will be, too..." "Oh, why bother?" "You'll just do what you do." "It's the last midnight." "So goodbye, all." "Coming at you fast, midnight... soon you'll see the sky fall." "Here, you want a bean?" "Have another bean beans were made for making you rich!" "Plant them and they soar..." "Here, you want some more?" "Listen to the roar." "Giants by the score...!" "Oh well, you can blame another witch." "It's the last midnight it's the last verse." "Now, before it's past midnight." "I'm leaving you my last curse." "I'm leaving you alone." "You can tend the garden, it's yours." "Separate and alone, everybody down on all fours." "All right, mother... when?" "Lost the beans again!" "Punish me the way you did then!" "Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch and the gloom and the doom and the boom" "maybe I shouldn't have stolen from the giant..." "Maybe I shouldn't have strayed from the path..." "Maybe I shouldn't have attended the ball..." " Yes." "Maybe you shouldn't have..." " Where are you going?" "Away from here." "But you said we had to find our way out of this together." "It doesn't matter whether we're together or apart." "We need your help." "You don't understand." "I depended on my wife for everything." "She was the one who helped." "Åí ßçäê ãä óçúïêäí you would leave your child?" "He'll be happier in the arms of a princess..." "But wait..." "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" "BAKER'S FATHER:" "Son." " I don't want to talk to you." "It's because of you all of this happened." "Go away!" "I'm sorry." "I did a foolish thing." "Why would you do that?" "Why did you take the witch's beans?" "They were there and I wanted them." "I didn't think." "I was being careless..." " selfish." " Yes." "You stole them and you were caught, and then you did what you do." "You just ran away." "When your mother died, I was..." "I hated myself and I ran from my guilt and my shame... and your son." "Yes, and my son." "And I'm sorry for that." "Then what do you want?" "Aren't you making the same mistake?" "Aren't you running away?" "Be better than me, son." "Do better..." "(PLANNING)" "If there were just some way we could surprise the giant." "She's too tall to surprise." "I knew you wouldn't give up." "He wouldn't leave his baby." "It looked like he was going to." "Give me my son." "Hey, hey." "(BABY CRYING)" "What are we going to do now?" "We need to rid this kingdom of the giant... together." "She'll be back soon;" "Here's the plan." "We're going to feed jack to the giant." "We're going to use you as bait to lure the giant towards the tar pit." "The birds can help!" "Oh good friends we need your help more than ever." "What of the prince?" "That doesn't matter now!" "What's important is that we find a way to defeat the giant." "Oh yes, thank you birds." "You can talk to birds?" "The birds will do their part." "Okay, we don't have much time." " I'm excited." " First, we need a weapon." "Your father's being very brave." "We're going to be very brave too." "Are you alright, miss?" "The giant went in that direction." "My darling!" "My darling!" "I did not recognize you." "What are you doing here?" "And with a child?" "You must go back to the castle at once." "There's a giant on the loose." "I'm well aware of that." "My love." "What is it?" "Maybe I'm not your only love." "I love you." "Truly I do." "If you love me, why did you stray?" "I thought if you were mine, that I would never wish for more." "If this is how you behave as a prince, what kind of king will you be?" "I was raised to be charming, not sincere." "I think you should go." "Is that what you really wish?" "My father's house was a nightmare." "Your house was a dream." "Now I want something in-between." "I shall always love the maiden who ran away." "And I the faraway prince." "Careful, there." "Not so fast." "Don't worry this is easier than a beanstalk." "They're in the tree... over -we made slings out of my cape." "I wanted to climb a tree too." "I'm glad you're here to help me." "What's wrong?" "I think my mother and my granny would be upset with me." "Why?" "They said always to make them proud and here I am about to kill somebody." "Not somebody." "A giant who's done a lot of harm." "But a giant's a person." "Aren't we to show forgiveness?" "Mother cannot guide you." "Now you're on your own only me beside you." "Still, you're not alone." "No one is alone, truly." "No one is alone." "I wish..." "I know." "Wait until my mother hears I've slain the giant." "Jack!" "Jack, there's something you have to know." " It's about your mother." " What?" "She didn't make it." "Was she killed by the giant?" "No." "It wasn't like that." "She was fighting with the giant, trying to protect you, and she was pushed by the steward ...and... she fell." "The steward will pay for this." "No, jack!" "After we slay the giant, I will slay him." "You'll do nothing of the kind." "What he done was wrong." "He should be punished." "It's not as easy as that." "Mother isn't here now." "Wrong things, right things..." "Who knows what she'd say?" "Who can say what's true?" "Nothing's quite so clear now." "Do things, fight things..." "Feel you've lost your way?" "You decide, but you are not alone." "Believe me." "No one is alone." " Believe me." " Truly..." "People make mistakes." "Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes holding to their own, thinking they're alone." "Honor their mistakes." "Fight for their mistakes..." "Everybody makes... one another's terrible mistakes." "Witches can be right, giants can be good." "You decide what's right, you decide what's good." "Just remember." "Someone is on your side." "Our side." "Our side." "Someone else is not." "While we're seeing our side..." "Maybe we forgot." "They are not alone no one is alone" "someone is on your side... no one is alone..." "Go, jack!" "Be careful." "Here she comes!" " Wher is the boy?" " We have him." " Where?" " He's hiding in that tree!" "Here I am!" " You ready?" " Ready!" "Good birds!" "She doesn't look happy." " Look out jack!" " Jack!" "Jack!" " Jack!" " Where are they?" "Jack!" "Jack?" "Mr. baker?" "Jack?" "Over here!" "Jack!" "Oh, be careful, are you alright?" " Where is he?" " He's not with you?" " Jack!" " Mr. baker?" "Jack!" "Help me." "Jack, I'm here." "Are you alright?" "Are you okay?" "Are you alright?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "We did it!" "We did it!" "Come here." "Now we can all return home." "What home?" "I have no one to take care of me." "And we have nowhere to go so we'll move in with you." "Well..." "Of course." "You can come home with me." "And you can come, too." "If you want to." "I'll gladly help you with your house." "There are times when I actually enjoy cleaning." "Here... give him to me." "Sssh!" "Sssh!" "I know you miss your mother." "I miss her too." "Maybe I just wasn't meant to have children... don't say that!" "Of course you were meant to have children." "But how can I go about being a father when I had no father to show me?" "Just calm the child." "Yes, calm the child." "Look, tell him the story of how it all happened." "Be father and mother, you'll know what to do." "Alone." "Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood." "Do not let it grieve you no one leaves for good you are not alone" "no one is alone hold him to the light now." "Let him see the glow." "Things will be all right now tell him what you know..." "Once upon a time... in a far off kingdom..." "There lay a small village careful the things you say at the edge of the woods..." "And in this village lived a young maiden..." "Children will listen." "A carefree young lad... and a childless baker... careful the things you do" "with his wife." "And one day, the baker and his wife were in their shop when a witch guide them along the way children will glisten." "Burst in, blowing the door off its hinges..." "Children will look to you for which way to turn to learn what to be." "Careful before you say "listen to me."" "children will listen." "Careful the wish you make wishes are children." "Careful the path they take..." "Wishes come true, not free."